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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... selling , buying , inveigling , purloining , conveying or receiving children . . . ' Port officials were instructed to ... sell or transport them into ports beyond the sea ' - an offence punishable by death . None of it 12 made much ...
... selling , buying , inveigling , purloining , conveying or receiving children . . . ' Port officials were instructed to ... sell or transport them into ports beyond the sea ' - an offence punishable by death . None of it 12 made much ...
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... sell on the wonders of life in the New World . Merchants published advertisements , bogus letters were planted in the press and tracts extolling America were passed hand to hand . The Dublin Weekly Journal , for instance , carried an ...
... sell on the wonders of life in the New World . Merchants published advertisements , bogus letters were planted in the press and tracts extolling America were passed hand to hand . The Dublin Weekly Journal , for instance , carried an ...
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... selling the convicts as servants . What they proposed was not illegal . No ban on convicts had yet been imposed in Maryland . Salmon and Moore assumed they could sell quite a number of convicts before any ban could be imposed . Salmon ...
... selling the convicts as servants . What they proposed was not illegal . No ban on convicts had yet been imposed in Maryland . Salmon and Moore assumed they could sell quite a number of convicts before any ban could be imposed . Salmon ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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