White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in AmericaNYU Press, 8 mars 2008 - 320 pages White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide “breeders” for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface. |
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... Popham, Sir John 37, 39 report on slavery 222 Sandys, Sir Edwin 81 transportation of rebels 161 Pascal, Blaize 23 penal colony Australia 16 Barbados 180, 182.
... , 87 see also Warwick, Earl of Plymouth 40, 43, 45, 72, 161,218, Plymouth colony 113, 116 Plymouth Company 36, 38, 41–2 Pocahontas 48, 67, 85 Poor Laws 78, 141 Popham, George 44–5 Popham, Sir John colonising plans 34, 36.
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