Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718

Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718

'There is Great Want of Servants'

Wareing, John (Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies (Retired), Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies (Retired), University of North London)

Oxford University Press

12/2016

320

Dura

Inglês

9780198788904

15 a 20 dias

The first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, who paid for their transportation and keep, and continued to work unpaid for years on their arrival. Often these people were deceived and coerced, despite half-hearted government efforts to curtail the activities of what was, after all, a useful crime for the English state.
PART I 'THE WORTHY ACTION OF ENLARGING TRADE AND PLANTATION'; PART II 'THERE IS GREAT WANT OF SERVANTS': THE INDENTURED SERVANT TRADE 1618-1718; PART III CONTROLLING CRIMINALITY IN THE SERVANT TRADE 1640-1718: COURTS AND REGISTRIES
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