White Cargo
Just picked up a book off Amazon called - White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America.
"In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 300,000 people or more became slaves there in all but name. 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.
Drawing on letters, diaries, and court and government archives, the authors demonstrate that the brutalities associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule."
It's hard to believe that so many innocent white Europeans were used as slaves early on in the USA's history. Apparently the white slaves were treated more harshly than the blacks and were worth significantly less.