White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America (Paperback)

from JBD1

Disjointed, overblown, and poorly sourced. Skip it.

from elimatta

It's good to see another addition to the few books on the transportation of convicts to North America. But like its predecessors, this book pretty much ignores the law. It describes all white forced servants as being slaves. In doing so, it somehow assumes that the law was a sham. In law, there w...

from tuckerresearch

A topic that often comes up in regular society: "What about white slaves?" Unfortunately, political correctness has discouraged academic historians from even addressing the topic. Which is why this book is written by two non-academic, non-historians. (This is a demerit in the eyes of many. It is ...

from TLCrawford

Until I started reading [White Cargo] by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh I thought I knew a little something about American history. I didn't. Between Jamestown and the Declaration of Independence, American style slavery was developed to supply the labor needed to work the new land. First street chi...

from TLCrawford

Until I started reading [White Cargo] by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh I thought I knew a little something about American history. I didn't. Between Jamestown and the Declaration of Independence, American style slavery was developed to supply the labor needed to work the new land. First street chi...