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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... plantation servants in Virginia but they were nevertheless very much a repressed underclass . The Puritan view of them was given by the Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop in 1630 : God Almighty in His most holy and wise providence ...
... plantation servants in Virginia but they were nevertheless very much a repressed underclass . The Puritan view of them was given by the Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop in 1630 : God Almighty in His most holy and wise providence ...
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... plantation work , baulked at the instruction and mounted what was effectively a coup . He had Wollaston's lieutenant ejected from the plantation and gathered the remaining free - willers around him to offer alternatives . They could ...
... plantation work , baulked at the instruction and mounted what was effectively a coup . He had Wollaston's lieutenant ejected from the plantation and gathered the remaining free - willers around him to offer alternatives . They could ...
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... plantation owners had taken over most of the good land on the island . It became difficult for newly freed servants to set up a farm . The former servant would find that he or she had to work for a plantation owner for a subsistence ...
... plantation owners had taken over most of the good land on the island . It became difficult for newly freed servants to set up a farm . The former servant would find that he or she had to work for a plantation owner for a subsistence ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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