Daily Archives: March 13, 2014

White Gold

Another book mentioned a couple of posts ago is White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves (2005) by Giles Milton. Below are some review excerpts. From Booklist: The horrors of the transatlantic slave … Continue reading

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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America

Here is the book description of White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America (2008) by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, a book mentioned in the previous post: White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands … Continue reading

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Why Does Hollywood Ignore White Slavery?

Years ago, a friend of mine who is white determined that an ancestor of was, upon coming to America, an indentured servant. I wonder how common white indentured servitude was in the 17th and 18th century? In “Why Does Hollywood … Continue reading

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