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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 27
Page 18
... settlement to settlement . And it tells the stories of those they sold and of those who sold themselves . Some refused to be victims and fought the system by running away , by rebellion and even by murder . Many others succumbed to ...
... settlement to settlement . And it tells the stories of those they sold and of those who sold themselves . Some refused to be victims and fought the system by running away , by rebellion and even by murder . Many others succumbed to ...
Page 33
... settlement was suddenly deserted , leaving the fort to crumble back into the earth . Today , the fort exists as the merest outline etched in the landscape , revealing little of the philosophy or vision that impelled men to build it ...
... settlement was suddenly deserted , leaving the fort to crumble back into the earth . Today , the fort exists as the merest outline etched in the landscape , revealing little of the philosophy or vision that impelled men to build it ...
Page 303
... Settlement of the Country of Schoharie by the Germans ( New York , 1823 ) Brown , Kathleen M. , Good Wives , Nasty Wenches , and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender , Race , and Power in Colonial Virginia ( University of North Carolina Press ...
... Settlement of the Country of Schoharie by the Germans ( New York , 1823 ) Brown , Kathleen M. , Good Wives , Nasty Wenches , and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender , Race , and Power in Colonial Virginia ( University of North Carolina Press ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
13 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
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