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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... trade . According to Haverland , Stewart paid twenty - five shillings to anyone who provided him with a victim . Stewart then sold them on for forty shillings apiece . In another affidavit , Haverland accused William Thiene , a ...
... trade . According to Haverland , Stewart paid twenty - five shillings to anyone who provided him with a victim . Stewart then sold them on for forty shillings apiece . In another affidavit , Haverland accused William Thiene , a ...
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... trade with the island was suspended . Likewise , all trade between Barbados or any other English colonies or Dutch ships was forbidden . By this manner , England got a stranglehold on Atlantic trade and held the tiny rebellious isle of ...
... trade with the island was suspended . Likewise , all trade between Barbados or any other English colonies or Dutch ships was forbidden . By this manner , England got a stranglehold on Atlantic trade and held the tiny rebellious isle of ...
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... trade was big business . The merchant who transported most of them in the early 1770s claimed that it was twice as profitable as the black slave trade . The year 1718 marked the start of the mass emptying of England's gaols into America ...
... trade was big business . The merchant who transported most of them in the early 1770s claimed that it was twice as profitable as the black slave trade . The year 1718 marked the start of the mass emptying of England's gaols into America ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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