White cargo : the forgotten history of Britain's White slaves in America / Don Jordan and Michael Walsh.

Title:

ISBN:

9780814742723

9780814742969

Personal Author:

Jordan, Don, 1948-

Publication Information:

Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

General Note:

Contents:

In the shadow of the myth -- A place for the unwanted -- The judge's dream -- The merchant prince -- Children of the city -- The jagged edge -- "They are not dogs" -- The people trade -- Spirited away -- Foreigners in their own land -- Dissent in the north -- The planter from Angola -- "Barbadosed" -- The grandees -- Bacon's rebellion -- Queen Anne's golden book -- Disunity in the union -- Lost and found -- "His Majesty's seven-year passengers" -- The last hurrah.

Summary:

Thousands of Britons lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century

Subject Term:

Slavery--United States -- History 17th century.

Slavery--United States -- History 18th century.

White people--United States -- Social conditions 17th century

White people--United States -- Social conditions 18th century

Indentured servants--United States -- History