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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... sold their human wares , sometimes disguising convicts as regular servants , sometimes hawking servants from settlement to settlement . And it tells the stories of those they sold and of those who sold themselves . Some refused to be ...
... sold their human wares , sometimes disguising convicts as regular servants , sometimes hawking servants from settlement to settlement . And it tells the stories of those they sold and of those who sold themselves . Some refused to be ...
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... sold to and by the planter to whom the merchant sold him . Philip Bruce , who appears to have dug through every headright ever claimed in Virginia , was outraged by the corruption and made that clear in his Economic History of Virginia ...
... sold to and by the planter to whom the merchant sold him . Philip Bruce , who appears to have dug through every headright ever claimed in Virginia , was outraged by the corruption and made that clear in his Economic History of Virginia ...
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... sold as bonded slaves . Rank was no safeguard . In 1656 , two Royalist officers named Rivers and Foyle wrote : " The Master of the ship sold your miserable petitioners and the others . . . for 155lb weight of sugar apiece ( more or less ...
... sold as bonded slaves . Rank was no safeguard . In 1656 , two Royalist officers named Rivers and Foyle wrote : " The Master of the ship sold your miserable petitioners and the others . . . for 155lb weight of sugar apiece ( more or less ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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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