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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... 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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