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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English ship ! ' whenever a ship flying the red - and- white striped flag of the East India Company anchored in Table Bay . Smythe combined astute risk - taking with ruthlessness and the wooing of princes . In India , he learned that ...
English ship ! ' whenever a ship flying the red - and- white striped flag of the East India Company anchored in Table Bay . Smythe combined astute risk - taking with ruthlessness and the wooing of princes . In India , he learned that ...
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But when the Virginian tobacco trade picked up , the smaller producers began to suffer . Some Irish in the Caribbean went on to become major planters and slave owners themselves . Into this stark new world sailed a trading ship called ...
But when the Virginian tobacco trade picked up , the smaller producers began to suffer . Some Irish in the Caribbean went on to become major planters and slave owners themselves . Into this stark new world sailed a trading ship called ...
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his ship , the crew and the prisoners locked below . The Crown had begun its journey at the port of Leith , outside Edinburgh , in November . A better route would have been to strike a southerly course down the east coast of Scotland ...
his ship , the crew and the prisoners locked below . The Crown had begun its journey at the port of Leith , outside Edinburgh , in November . A better route would have been to strike a southerly course down the east coast of Scotland ...
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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
Review: White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
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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