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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... letter from the Puritan leader Thomas Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln written in 1631 explained why : We found ourselves wholly unable to feed them by reason that the provisions shipped for them were taken out of the ship they were ...
... letter from the Puritan leader Thomas Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln written in 1631 explained why : We found ourselves wholly unable to feed them by reason that the provisions shipped for them were taken out of the ship they were ...
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... letter described the ' bonny country ' then gave the very high wage rates for various trades and the very low price of land , and urged : ' I beg of ye all to come here . ' The letter was signed ' James Murray ' but was most probably a ...
... letter described the ' bonny country ' then gave the very high wage rates for various trades and the very low price of land , and urged : ' I beg of ye all to come here . ' The letter was signed ' James Murray ' but was most probably a ...
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... letter quoted in Blumenthal , Walter Hart , Brides from Bridewell : Female Felons Sent to Colonial America ( 1962 ) . 6 Peter Wilson Coldham , Emigrants in Chains : A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas , 1607-1776 ...
... letter quoted in Blumenthal , Walter Hart , Brides from Bridewell : Female Felons Sent to Colonial America ( 1962 ) . 6 Peter Wilson Coldham , Emigrants in Chains : A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas , 1607-1776 ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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