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The forgotten story of the thousands of white 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 (the book) brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.

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#exploration #government #slavery #slaves #whites #book

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Answer 1

Keep turning your head to the past and you won't plow straight lines.

Answer 2

This is a story that has not been told in America since the late 1800's!!!
I heard some of the details from my grandfather!!!
Don't expect to hear about it in the near future, I tried to bring it up in school, in the 1960's, and was immediately shut down!!! No body wants to hear!!!!!

Answer 3

Sadly this does not fit the narrative of today's media and Dem's BLM agenda. I am very familiar with the white slave trade but as history is to be re-written these days this information will be heavily suppressed. All the British colonies benefited from these shipments, including the US, Canada and Australia. One of my close friends in Prince Edward Island (Atlantic Canada) is a direct decendant of some of these children.


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