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Introduction: In the Shadow of the Myth 11
A Place for the Unwanted 21
The Judge's Dream 33
The Merchant Prince 47
Children of the City 75
The Jagged Edge 89
'They are not Dogs' 99
The People Trade 113
Spirited Away 127
Foreigners in Their Own Land 137
Dissent in the North 155
The Planter from Angola 169
'Barbadosed' 177
The Grandees 193
Bacon's Rebellion 205
Queen Anne's Golden Book 213
Disunity in the Union 227
Lost and Found 233
'His Majesty's Seven-Year Passengers' 247
The Last Hurrah 271
Notes 283
Select Bibliography 301
Index 313
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reviewed White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America on March 16, 2017
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
During the early centuries of the British colonies hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were shipped from England and Ireland to serve as forced labor, many of them enslaved. Some of the children were mere toddlers, the parents hoping for a better life for them. The adults were either convicts, vagrants, or Catholics. Many of them were kidnapped.
Ir is thought that " black slavery emerged out of white servitude," the only difference being that those white servants who survived the brutality of their servitude may see freedom many years later.
Cheap bodies to people the new colonies and toil in the fields were drastically needed, but no one volunteered. The majority of them died within months of landing. Food was scarce. Brutal punishment was prevalent.
It wasn't until the suppression of Bacon's Rebellion that white supremacy was engendered. Their "daily condition was little different from that of Africans", but whites were now taught that they were superior and were segregated, but brutality was equal.
Importation of white servants into America did not stop until about 1785. Our first president, George Washington, was a prosperous slave owner. For more on this read Not Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. It's naive to believe that our country was solely founded on the backs of free men. We need to recognize the slave labor that built, toiled, and tilled this great land.
2017 Lenten nonfiction Buddy Reading Challenge book #34
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Add White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America, 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 w, White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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