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 fields could be that bad . A typical early plantation was an ever - expanding clearing on the Tidewater , the western shore of the Chesapeake where the James , Potomac , York and the Rappahannock rivers run into the bay . For ...
... tobacco fields could be that bad . A typical early plantation was an ever - expanding clearing on the Tidewater , the western shore of the Chesapeake where the James , Potomac , York and the Rappahannock rivers run into the bay . For ...
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... tobacco plantation on the north bank of the James River called the Neck of Land . One of them was the cockney girl Elizabeth Abbott , who , it may be remembered , was among the first street urchins picked up in the London swoops of 1618 ...
... tobacco plantation on the north bank of the James River called the Neck of Land . One of them was the cockney girl Elizabeth Abbott , who , it may be remembered , was among the first street urchins picked up in the London swoops of 1618 ...
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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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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