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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... sugar cane is in a Hindu love charm from the ancient hymns of the Atharva Veda : I am sweeter than honey , fuller of sweetness than liquorice . Mayest thou without fail long for me alone ( as a bee ) for a branch full of honey . I have ...
... sugar cane is in a Hindu love charm from the ancient hymns of the Atharva Veda : I am sweeter than honey , fuller of sweetness than liquorice . Mayest thou without fail long for me alone ( as a bee ) for a branch full of honey . I have ...
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... sugar plantation . He describes how sugar was refined and details the economics of buying and running a plantation . To buy a 500 - acre estate at the beginning of the 1650s , he explained , would cost £ 14,000 . For this outlay , one ...
... sugar plantation . He describes how sugar was refined and details the economics of buying and running a plantation . To buy a 500 - acre estate at the beginning of the 1650s , he explained , would cost £ 14,000 . For this outlay , one ...
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... sugar biology 178 cane spirit 179-82 farming and manufacture 180 , 182-5 , 189 industry 185 , 236 plantations 183 , 230 147 , 156 , sugar cane 28 , 177 , 179-80 Sullivan , James 43 Susan Constant 48 Teddico , Captain Thomas 155-6 , 162 ...
... sugar biology 178 cane spirit 179-82 farming and manufacture 180 , 182-5 , 189 industry 185 , 236 plantations 183 , 230 147 , 156 , sugar cane 28 , 177 , 179-80 Sullivan , James 43 Susan Constant 48 Teddico , Captain Thomas 155-6 , 162 ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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