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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... whipping post being installed in every locality . Masters would be given the option of bringing in servants to be punished there or administering the penalty themselves on their own plantations.7 The extra - time precedent applied to ...
... whipping post being installed in every locality . Masters would be given the option of bringing in servants to be punished there or administering the penalty themselves on their own plantations.7 The extra - time precedent applied to ...
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... whipped servants but wouldn't easily get away with whipping them to death . Nevertheless , if you would believe some of the popular American histories published in the first half of the last century , there was little difference between ...
... whipped servants but wouldn't easily get away with whipping them to death . Nevertheless , if you would believe some of the popular American histories published in the first half of the last century , there was little difference between ...
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... whipping . In Virginia , constables apprehending runaways were instructed to administer an immediate whipping and every constable who escorted them on the journey back to the 172 WHITE CARGO.
... whipping . In Virginia , constables apprehending runaways were instructed to administer an immediate whipping and every constable who escorted them on the journey back to the 172 WHITE CARGO.
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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