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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... months , another 108 boys and twenty - eight girls , aged between eight and sixteen years old , were brought in to join them.2 The following February , they were lined up in Bridewell so that representatives from the Virginia Company ...
... months , another 108 boys and twenty - eight girls , aged between eight and sixteen years old , were brought in to join them.2 The following February , they were lined up in Bridewell so that representatives from the Virginia Company ...
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... months later , all but one of the Coopy family were dead . The first laws governing the treatment of servants like Coopy had been agreed four months before his arrival by a group of worthies gathered in the choir of Jamestown's little ...
... months later , all but one of the Coopy family were dead . The first laws governing the treatment of servants like Coopy had been agreed four months before his arrival by a group of worthies gathered in the choir of Jamestown's little ...
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... month on the condition he posted security with the court against his good behaviour for one year . Mrs Dennison and Quirforth appear to have been judged the ringleaders . They were sentenced to three months apiece and ordered to find ...
... month on the condition he posted security with the court against his good behaviour for one year . Mrs Dennison and Quirforth appear to have been judged the ringleaders . They were sentenced to three months apiece and ordered to find ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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