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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... young persons and others ( ignorant and unskillful in such matters ) to serve them upon intolerable and unchristian like conditions.'14 Another report lamented that ' the ungodly that have only respect for their own profit ' were ...
... young persons and others ( ignorant and unskillful in such matters ) to serve them upon intolerable and unchristian like conditions.'14 Another report lamented that ' the ungodly that have only respect for their own profit ' were ...
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... young wild striplings like runaway prentices ... That house which they are entering is an Office where servants for the plantations bind themselves to be miserable as long as they live ... Those young rakes and tatterdemalions you see ...
... young wild striplings like runaway prentices ... That house which they are entering is an Office where servants for the plantations bind themselves to be miserable as long as they live ... Those young rakes and tatterdemalions you see ...
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... Young Pretender and the '45 is so well known that it hardly needs repeating here . It is enough to give the bare bones and say that this rising was of much more consequence than that of thirty years before . For a start , unlike the Old ...
... Young Pretender and the '45 is so well known that it hardly needs repeating here . It is enough to give the bare bones and say that this rising was of much more consequence than that of thirty years before . For a start , unlike the Old ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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