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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... numbers of convicts and their descendants in the period when Jefferson was writing were not , as he would have it , ' one- thousandth part of the whole inhabitants ' but in reality the much more significant one in a hundred . However ...
... numbers of convicts and their descendants in the period when Jefferson was writing were not , as he would have it , ' one- thousandth part of the whole inhabitants ' but in reality the much more significant one in a hundred . However ...
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... number of cases but by the scale of criminal activity revealed through the evidence in the trials , for kidnappers often admitted to , or were accused of , very large numbers of offences . In 1671 , a spirit called William Haverland was ...
... number of cases but by the scale of criminal activity revealed through the evidence in the trials , for kidnappers often admitted to , or were accused of , very large numbers of offences . In 1671 , a spirit called William Haverland was ...
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... numbers to the Caribbean . In the 1640s , a fanciful report claimed some 20,000 Irish were living on St Christopher . Although this number seems improbable , we can take it that a good number of Irish did arrive on the island . In ...
... numbers to the Caribbean . In the 1640s , a fanciful report claimed some 20,000 Irish were living on St Christopher . Although this number seems improbable , we can take it that a good number of Irish did arrive on the island . In ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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