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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 03 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Roger Clark. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Indentured servants -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
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Indentured servants -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Peonage -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
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Peonage -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
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Whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Whites -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
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Whites -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Walsh, Michael, Auteur.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541455412 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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154145541X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12301620 |
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