Title Colonists in bondage : white servitude and convict labor in America, 1607-1776 / by Abbot Emerson Smith

Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, 1947 Richmond Virginia : Manufactured in the United States of America by the William Byrd Press, Inc ©1947

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 435 pages) Series UNC Press enduring editions UNC Press enduring editions. Contents Part I. The trade in servants. Indentured servants and redemptioners. The trade in servants : two controlling factors. Raising a cargo. Kidnapping, spiriting, and registry offices -- Part II. Penal transportation. Convict transportation to 1718. Convict transportation after 1718. The transportation of rogues and vagabonds. The transportation of political and military prisoners under the Commonwealth and Protectorate. The transportation of political and military prisoners after 1660 -- Part III. The servant in the plantations. Voyage and arrival. The custom of the country. The servant in the plantations. Freed servants -- Appendix: The number and distribution of indentured servants -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record; online resource viewed March 6, 2017 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indentured servants -- United States -- History Convict labor -- United States -- History Prisoners -- Transportation -- Great Britain -- History Penal colonies -- United States -- History HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Convict labor Indentured servants Penal colonies Prisoners -- Transportation Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.), issuing body. ISBN 9781469615820 1469615827

Other Titles White servitude and convict labor in America, 1607-1776

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