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WHITE CARGO by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh (Mainstream, Pounds 20) HERE'S a shock revelation: slavery was not confined to the black population.
In fact, during the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of white Britons were marketed like cattle and transported to Britain's American colonies to work in the fields.See the full content of this document
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The Story of Slavery in Black and White ; Critic's Choice
With the aim of emptying England's prisons and clearing up the city streets, the authorities rounded up vagrants, orphans, prostitutes, beggars and criminals, and sold them into servitude.
In theory, they would be 'indentured ser...See the full content of this document
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