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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... women captured at John Martin's plantation during the Good Friday attack . The pursuit and liberation of the women featured two of the most distasteful episodes of the Virginia Company period , with the colony's surgeon , Dr John Pott ...
... women captured at John Martin's plantation during the Good Friday attack . The pursuit and liberation of the women featured two of the most distasteful episodes of the Virginia Company period , with the colony's surgeon , Dr John Pott ...
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... women and orphans were rounded up from workhouses and prisons . They were , he said , ' boys who were of an age to labour and women who were marriageable , or not past breeding'.11 The children were put to work in the fields , while the ...
... women and orphans were rounded up from workhouses and prisons . They were , he said , ' boys who were of an age to labour and women who were marriageable , or not past breeding'.11 The children were put to work in the fields , while the ...
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... women and lads : among whom are several tradesmen who are to be sold on board the said ship , now in Annapolis Dock ... women's time of service ... Would - be buyers examined the human merchandise , paying minute attention to every limb ...
... women and lads : among whom are several tradesmen who are to be sold on board the said ship , now in Annapolis Dock ... women's time of service ... Would - be buyers examined the human merchandise , paying minute attention to every limb ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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