White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in AmericaMainstream, 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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... later , Pascal wrote of this conflict : ' Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction . ' While still in his early twenties , Gilbert headed a contingent of 1,000 English Protestants ...
... later , Pascal wrote of this conflict : ' Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction . ' While still in his early twenties , Gilbert headed a contingent of 1,000 English Protestants ...
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... later died . Opechancanough evidently did not drink , for he escaped . However , two of his chiefs were among fifty more shot down later that day in an English ambush . The women remained hostages ; freeing them was not the settlers ...
... later died . Opechancanough evidently did not drink , for he escaped . However , two of his chiefs were among fifty more shot down later that day in an English ambush . The women remained hostages ; freeing them was not the settlers ...
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... later when the famous Winthrop fleet arrived . However , when the fleet unloaded , the supplies earmarked for the ... later . The Puritans in later years veered between treating indentured servants as children and treating them as ...
... later when the famous Winthrop fleet arrived . However , when the fleet unloaded , the supplies earmarked for the ... later . The Puritans in later years veered between treating indentured servants as children and treating them as ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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