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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... taken in those abominable Practices , till Wednesday the 7th . Of this Instant September : When one Captain Azariah Daniel , Commander of a Ship now in the River , coming by the Stocks - Market , was met by two Gentlemen who having lost ...
... taken in those abominable Practices , till Wednesday the 7th . Of this Instant September : When one Captain Azariah Daniel , Commander of a Ship now in the River , coming by the Stocks - Market , was met by two Gentlemen who having lost ...
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... taken ill and is carried into a shelter for sick workers , Jack observes : ' I think they should call it the condemned hole , for it was really only a place for people to die in , not a place to be cured in . ' He reflects that ...
... taken ill and is carried into a shelter for sick workers , Jack observes : ' I think they should call it the condemned hole , for it was really only a place for people to die in , not a place to be cured in . ' He reflects that ...
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... taken her . -- The guilty ones were a married couple called John and Jane Dennison , ' office - keepers ' with a ' lock - up house ' . Sadly , by the time Mrs Brickleband discovered who had taken her daughter , she was too late the ...
... taken her . -- The guilty ones were a married couple called John and Jane Dennison , ' office - keepers ' with a ' lock - up house ' . Sadly , by the time Mrs Brickleband discovered who had taken her daughter , she was too late the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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