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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Don Jordan; Mike Walsh |
ISBN: | 9781845961930 1845961935 |
OCLC Number: | 191754328 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2007. |
Description: | 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. |
Abstract:
Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labour in the tobacco fields, brothels were raided to provide 'breeders' for Virginia and hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become chattels who could be bought, sold and gambled away.
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"An eye-opening and heart-rending story" * The Times * "Briskly written . . . harrowing reading" * Daily Telegraph * "Will certainly make readers re-evaluate all the recent appeasement and hype about apologising for the slave trade" * Daily Mail * "An extraordinary book" -- Toni Morrison "A fascinating account of Britain's troubled relationship with its biggest colony" * Metro London * Read more...
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