White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America"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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Aristotle , A Treatise on Government In the summer of 2003 , archaeologists excavated a seventeenth- century site outside Annapolis , Maryland , and discovered the skeleton of a teenage boy . Examination showed the boy to have died ...
Aristotle , A Treatise on Government In the summer of 2003 , archaeologists excavated a seventeenth- century site outside Annapolis , Maryland , and discovered the skeleton of a teenage boy . Examination showed the boy to have died ...
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Although sugar has been associated with love through the ages , the men and women who cut and refined sugar in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century must have cursed the day the fibrous cane's sweet heart was ever discovered .
Although sugar has been associated with love through the ages , the men and women who cut and refined sugar in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century must have cursed the day the fibrous cane's sweet heart was ever discovered .
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Seventeenth Century America : Essays in Colonial History ( 1959 ) . 13 Anon . , The Life of Thomas Hellier ( 1678 ) . ... 17 Mary Johnston , The Old Dominion : An Account of Certain Prisoners of Hope ( 1899 ) . 18 Thomas J. Wertenbaker ...
Seventeenth Century America : Essays in Colonial History ( 1959 ) . 13 Anon . , The Life of Thomas Hellier ( 1678 ) . ... 17 Mary Johnston , The Old Dominion : An Account of Certain Prisoners of Hope ( 1899 ) . 18 Thomas J. Wertenbaker ...
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WHITE CARGO: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Avis d'utilisateur - KirkusTwo British journalists unravel a significant history of indentured servitude in the New World.Before the 18th century, when Southern tobacco grandees and West Indian sugar planters imported Africans ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - Sarah Fournier - GoodreadsRead selected chapters for research on a history paper. His writing is very emotional (if thats the right word). He is trying to make indentured servitude look horrible on the same scale as black slavery almost and his language gets the point across. Very persuasive. Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America |
| Auteurs | Don Jordan, Michael Walsh |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Mainstream Pub., 2007 |
| ISBN | 1845961951, 9781845961954 |
| Longueur | 320 pages |
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