White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in AmericaMainstream Pub., 2007 - 320 pages "White cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Briatin's American colonies." "Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Jordan and Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule." --book jacket. |
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... labour , or slumber over his task he cared not how , nay , the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week , as now they themselves will do in a day . 29 This dawning of private enterprise coincided with the ...
... labour , or slumber over his task he cared not how , nay , the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week , as now they themselves will do in a day . 29 This dawning of private enterprise coincided with the ...
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... labour force , including free - willers , deported criminals , street children and the rest men , women and children had to be inveigled or enticed into slavery to take up the slack in the colonial labour force . Spirits became the ...
... labour force , including free - willers , deported criminals , street children and the rest men , women and children had to be inveigled or enticed into slavery to take up the slack in the colonial labour force . Spirits became the ...
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... labour market was a crude racket and the servants were coerced and conned into unnecessarily lengthy periods of slavery just as in Maryland or Virginia . The indentured servant did not simply sell his or her labour for a period of time ...
... labour market was a crude racket and the servants were coerced and conned into unnecessarily lengthy periods of slavery just as in Maryland or Virginia . The indentured servant did not simply sell his or her labour for a period of time ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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acres Africans Algonquin America Annesley arrived Barbados became began Berkeley Hundred black slaves bondage boys Bradnox Bridewell British Captain Carolina CHAPTER Charles Charles Keeling Chesapeake Christopher claimed colonists colony convicts Coopy court death died Elizabeth emigrants England English enslaved felons followed forced free-willers freedom gaols George Gilbert gold Governor headright headright system History Humphrey Gilbert hundred indentured servants Ireland Irish island James Jamestown kidnapped King labour land later lives London Lord Maryland master merchants Mittelberger months murder Native Americans Negroes numbers Palatines Pennsylvania plantation planters poor Popham Popham colony prisoners Privy Council punishment Queen Raleigh rebellion rebels records reported returned Richard River Robert runaway sailed Scotland Scots sell sent servitude settlement settlers seventeenth century ship Sir Edwin Sandys Sir Thomas Smythe slavery Smith sold Spanish spirit story sugar tobacco took trade transportation Virginia Company voyage whipping white servants William Williamson women wrote young