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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... tobacco agreeable to the English palate could be cultivated in Virginia . In 1613 , the planter John Rolfe , who later married Pocahontas , produced the colony's first commercial crop of ' tall tobacco ' and it was shipped to England ...
... tobacco agreeable to the English palate could be cultivated in Virginia . In 1613 , the planter John Rolfe , who later married Pocahontas , produced the colony's first commercial crop of ' tall tobacco ' and it was shipped to England ...
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... tobacco . ' One grey mare ' was valued at 2,000 pounds . Elias Edmond's estate in 1664 listed ' a maid servant to serve eight months ' as worth 600 pounds of tobacco , half as much as the value put on a bed , blankets , some curtains ...
... tobacco . ' One grey mare ' was valued at 2,000 pounds . Elias Edmond's estate in 1664 listed ' a maid servant to serve eight months ' as worth 600 pounds of tobacco , half as much as the value put on a bed , blankets , some curtains ...
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... tobacco . Those Irish who survived their indenture could start up their own smallholdings on the island's fertile land . But when the Virginian tobacco trade picked up , the smaller producers began to suffer . Some Irish in the ...
... tobacco . Those Irish who survived their indenture could start up their own smallholdings on the island's fertile land . But when the Virginian tobacco trade picked up , the smaller producers began to suffer . Some Irish in the ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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