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Author Galenson, David W.

Title White servitude in colonial America : an economic analysis / David W. Galenson
Published Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981

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 MELB  305.5620973 GAL W  AVAILABLE
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
West Indies British colonies British immigrant indentured personnel Economic conditions 1650-1780
Notes Includes index
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Harvard University, 1979) with the title: The indenture system and the colonial labor market
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.
British -- West Indies -- History.
Indentured servants -- West Indies -- History.
LC no. 81007682
ISBN 052123686X
052127379X (paperback)