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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... ordered that no person act as attorney for any servant hereafter except such as the court shall appoint.15 Planter - dominated courts made the following kinds of rulings : • They backed the most successful planter of them all , Richard ...
... ordered that no person act as attorney for any servant hereafter except such as the court shall appoint.15 Planter - dominated courts made the following kinds of rulings : • They backed the most successful planter of them all , Richard ...
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... ordered all officers of the law to keep a watch for those ' stealing , selling , buying , inveigling , purloining , conveying or receiving children ... ' Port officials were instructed to search all vessels ' in the river and at the ...
... ordered all officers of the law to keep a watch for those ' stealing , selling , buying , inveigling , purloining , conveying or receiving children ... ' Port officials were instructed to search all vessels ' in the river and at the ...
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... ordered to pay 500 pounds of tobacco or receive twenty lashes for bearing an illegitimate child . She was also ordered to receive thirty lashes for taking ' physic ' during her pregnancy . During her trial , Carter named Smith as the ...
... ordered to pay 500 pounds of tobacco or receive twenty lashes for bearing an illegitimate child . She was also ordered to receive thirty lashes for taking ' physic ' during her pregnancy . During her trial , Carter named Smith as the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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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