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Author Smith, Abbot Emerson.

Title Colonists in bondage; white servitude and convict labor in America, 1607-1776.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : Pub. for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1947.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  331.54 S642C    Check Shelf
Description viii, 435 pages ; 24 cm
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 srrival -- The custom of the country -- The servant on the plantations -- Freed servants -- Appendix: The number and distribution of indentured servants -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Index.
Bibliography Bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 339-395) "Bibliographical note": pages 397-417.
Subject Indentured servants.
Household employees -- United States.
Penal colonies -- United States.
Criminals -- Great Britain.
Added Author Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
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