Servants and Servitude in Colonial America (ePub)
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The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the northern, middle, and southern British American colonies...
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The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the northern, middle, and southern British American colonies as well as British Caribbean colonies.
Thousands of people arrived in the British-American colonies as indentured servants, transported felons, and kidnapped children forced into bound labor. Others already in America, such as Indians, freedmen, and poor whites, placed themselves into the service of others for food, clothing, shelter, and security; poverty in colonial America was relentless, and servitude was the voluntary and involuntary means by which the poor adapted, or tried to adapt, to miserable conditions. From the 1600s to the 1700s, Blacks, Indians, Europeans, Englishmen, children, and adults alike were indentured, apprenticed, transported as felons, kidnapped, or served as redemptioners.
Though servitude was more multiracial and multicultural than slavery, involving people from numerous racial and ethnic backgrounds, far fewer books have been written about it. This fascinating new study of servitude in colonial America provides the first complete overview of the varied lives of the dispossessed in 17th- and 18th-century America, examining colonial American servitude in all of its forms.
Thousands of people arrived in the British-American colonies as indentured servants, transported felons, and kidnapped children forced into bound labor. Others already in America, such as Indians, freedmen, and poor whites, placed themselves into the service of others for food, clothing, shelter, and security; poverty in colonial America was relentless, and servitude was the voluntary and involuntary means by which the poor adapted, or tried to adapt, to miserable conditions. From the 1600s to the 1700s, Blacks, Indians, Europeans, Englishmen, children, and adults alike were indentured, apprenticed, transported as felons, kidnapped, or served as redemptioners.
Though servitude was more multiracial and multicultural than slavery, involving people from numerous racial and ethnic backgrounds, far fewer books have been written about it. This fascinating new study of servitude in colonial America provides the first complete overview of the varied lives of the dispossessed in 17th- and 18th-century America, examining colonial American servitude in all of its forms.
Autoren-Porträt von Russell M. Lawson
Russell M. Lawson, Northeastern State University. He is author/editor of five encyclopedias, notably Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science (ME Sharpe, 2008) and Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia (ABC Clio, 2004), and author of thirteen monographs, notably Apostle of the East: The Life and Journeys of Daniel Little (St. Polycarp Publishing House, 2018), Servants and Servitude in Colonial America (Praeger, 2018), The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith's Voyage to New England (University Press of New England, 2015), Frontier Naturalist: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas (University of New Mexico Press, 2012), Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, and the American Revolution (Pickering & Chatto, 2011), The Land Between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819 (University of Michigan Press, 2004), and Passaconaway's Realm: Captain John Evans and the Exploration of Mount Washington (University Press of New England, 2002).Russell M. Lawson serves as adjunct professor at Northeastern State University, where he writes and teaches on scientists and explorers; the history of ideas; and the history of social, cultural, and political issues.
Russell M. Lawson, PhD, is professor of history at Bacone College, Muskogee, OK.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Russell M. Lawson
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 7 Jahre
- 2018, 1. Auflage, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- ISBN-10: 8216143559
- ISBN-13: 9798216143550
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.01.2018
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