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White Cargo - The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America (Standard format, CD, Unabridged edition)
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White Cargo - The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America (Standard format, CD, Unabridged edition)
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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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