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White cargo : the forgotten history of Britain's White slaves in America

Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, court and government archives, this book demonstrates that the brutalities 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
Print Book, English, ©2007
Mainstream Pub., Edinburgh, ©2007