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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... young ' gentlemen ' of one sort or another who had contracted to stay with the company for seven years as tenants . They included young bloods dreaming of easy riches and troublesome ne'er - do - wells dispatched by their families to ...
... young ' gentlemen ' of one sort or another who had contracted to stay with the company for seven years as tenants . They included young bloods dreaming of easy riches and troublesome ne'er - do - wells dispatched by their families to ...
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... young jobless men who made a practice of trailing round after the royal retinue , or that they were simply hoodlums or felons , or that they were the bastard sons of royal courtiers . Whatever they were , their crime is not recorded ...
... young jobless men who made a practice of trailing round after the royal retinue , or that they were simply hoodlums or felons , or that they were the bastard sons of royal courtiers . Whatever they were , their crime is not recorded ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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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