Description |
xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. The significance and origins of the colonial indenture system; Part II. Characteristics of the servant population; 2. The age and sex distributions of the indentured servants; 3. The occupations of the indentured servants in the seventeenth-century; 4. Occupations of the eighteenth-century indentured servants; 5. Literacy and the occupations of the indentured servants; Part III. Migration and the transatlantic market for indentured servants; 6. Patterns of servant migration from England to America; 7. The market for indentured servants; Part IV. White servitude in the colonial labour market: 8. The role of the indenture system in the colonial labour market; 9. The indenture system and the colonial labour market; Part V. Indentured servitude in American history: 10. Indentured labour in the Americas; Appendices; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Harvard University, 1979) with the title: The indenture system and the colonial labor market.Includes index. Bibliography: p. 279-283 |
Analysis |
North America British colonies British immigrant indentured personnel Economic conditions 1650-1780 |
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West Indies British colonies British immigrant indentured personnel Economic conditions 1650-1780 |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Harvard University, 1979) with the title: The indenture system and the colonial labor market |
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Harvard University, 1979) with the title: The indenture system and the colonial labor market |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 279-283 |
Subject |
Indentured servants -- United States -- History.
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British -- West Indies -- History.
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Indentured servants -- West Indies -- History.
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LC no. |
81007682 |
ISBN |
052123686X |
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052127379X (paperback) |
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