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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... sold at set prices . One can safely assume that transported convicts who were not put to work on company lands were sold to planters as servants , probably for seven years . In this hungry market , it inevitably followed that some of ...
... sold at set prices . One can safely assume that transported convicts who were not put to work on company lands were sold to planters as servants , probably for seven years . In this hungry market , it inevitably followed that some of ...
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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 ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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