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INDEX

Abbott, Elizabeth 80,

Aldworth, Thomas 65

Irish transported to

105–6,

112

Algonquin 51, 53, 64, 66–7,

146, 149, 153, 160,

Aberdeen 131, 236, 237,

83, 91, 99, 102–4, 114–16

161, 182, 191

241, 242, 246

Allen, Thomas 124–5

kidnap victims 127,

Abraham, The
143

Altham, Lady 246

129–30,

134

Addison, Joseph 220

Altham, Lord 242–3

laws 188, 190

advertisements

American War of

political prisoners sent to

for lost relatives 135

Independence

270

161, 188–9, 229

promoting emigration

Angola 87, 169–76

profits 183–6

214,

255

Anne, queen of England

racial mix 192

for runaways 241, 262–6

213–15,

217

rebellions 180–90, 191–2

Africans enslaved

Annesley, James 236,

‘Red-legs’ 192

Africans as ‘real estate’

242–6

servants’ conditions

108,

Anthony, Thomas 143–4

183–4,

187

Barbados 182–4, 186, 187,

Arawak 142, 179

Barrett, Francis 258

188, 191, 192, 194

Argall, Samuel 67, 82, 87, 93

beggars, rogues and vagabonds

Casor, John 174–5

Aubrey, John 42, 285

13, 22, 30, 70, 77, 115,

conditions 15, 201, 212,

Australia 16, 280

131, 141, 166, 182, 206,

257

219, 255, 260

first Africans sold in

Bacon, Francis 64, 70, 142,

Berkeley, Sir William 205

Virginia 76, 86–7

206,

268

attitude to servants 194

first lifetime enslavement

Bacon, Nathaniel 193,

Bacon’s Rebellion 207,

case

173

205–12

209,

211

loss of rights 172, 212

Bacon’s Rebellion 205–12

and planter aristocracy 195

numbers 176, 188

Baltimore 234, 254, 257, 261,

Berkeley Hundred 90–2,

origins of slavery 14, 172,

268–9, 278, 280

99

194,

212

Baltimore, Lord 113

Bermuda 59, 60, 68, 87

rebellion 173, 206,

Barbados

Bond, Barnet 251

209–10

banishment 182

Boston Tea Party 12

shipboard conditions 222

‘Barbadosed’ 183

Boulter, Hugh, archbishop

similarities to white

convicts 13, 180, 182

of Armagh 255

bondage 12, 111, 170,

history 178–80

Bradbury, Thomas 277–8

253,

256

indentured servants 18, 109,

Bradford, William 116

trade 169, 248, 254

143–4, 153, 182

Bradnox, Thomas 198–9

313

WHITE CARGO

Brickelband, Elizabeth

Challons, Henry 43, 49

183, 188–9, 195, 206

234–5

Chamberlain John 78

Clotworthy, Sir John 147

bridal boats 84, 94, 96

Chanco 99

Coke, Sir Edward 36, 40

Bridewell Palace

Charles I, king of England

Columbus, Christopher 25,

children 76, 79, 80, 83, 95

colonial grants 143

70,

177

John Donne’s sermon 85

Parliament 145, 189

Connecticut 175, 180

prison 22, 75

Scotland 158–9

convicts

women 96

Charles II, king of England

call for convict labour 64

Britain’s convict plot 271,

Bacon’s Rebellion 211

conditions in gaols 272

276,

279

Barbados 189

Cross, James 66

Campbell, Duncan 273–4

battle of Bothwell Bridge

fears of transportation 71

deceiving the Americans

163

Green, William 252

275,

278

battle of Worcester 161

Keeling, Charles 276–8

King George’s blessing

Carolina

215

Lauson, John 257

271,

275–6

Charles V, Holy Roman

length of sentences 249

Lord North 271, 274–5

Emperor

75

liberated in New York

Moore, George 275–6,

Chesapeake Bay

280

278–9

black slave market 169, 171

mortality rate 257

Mercury
279–80

descriptions of 28

mutinies 73, 250, 276–7,

mutinies 276–7,

mistreatment of servants 279

Salmon, George 275–6,

106, 122, 194

prison hulks,
see
prison

279–80

mortality in 85

hulks

Swift, The
276–80

Native Americans, war with

Revel, James 252

trial of escapers 277–8

52, 102, 207

slaves, described as 247

Bullock, William 127

people trade 118

Table Bay scheme 65–6

Burgesses, House of piracy 82

Thomas, Charles

276

(Virginia)

planters 194

Townsend, George

279

Bacon’s Rebellion 208

racial divisions 212

transportation 64, 70

convicts 254

runaways 173

Trusty, Christopher 276–8

inaugural meeting 82, 93

settlement 50, 91, 103,

Warwickshall, Jane 276–7

rights of servants 198, 200

104, 108, 110, 176, 254

Wilson, Sarah 266

punishments for servants

children

Cook, Captain James 16

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