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Colonists in Bondage

White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
Abbott Emerson Smith
Paperback price: $60
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Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: OIEAHC
Cloth/Hardcover Publication Date: 20/1947
Reprint Date: 12/2012
Pages: 443
Paperback ISBN: 9780807839683
Paperback Publication Date: 12/2012
Ebook ISBN: 9780807839676

Description

This is the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold” themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one. Their leaven has gone into the fiber of American society.”

Originally published in 1947.

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