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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"indentured servants"”.
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Runaway indentured servants in Maryland, 1745-1760
Many studies of indentured servitude in the eighteenth century have tended to characterize the labor system as fairly rigid. An examination of runaway indentured servant advertisements in the Maryland Gazette reveals several factors prompting a different conclusion. A comparison of runaway servants …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
… the descendants of seventeenth century European indentured servants. Combining archaeological, ethnographic, and historical methodologies, this dissertation explores class relations of Below Cliff residents to processes of capitalism as well as other island laborers, including Afro-Barbadians. …
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Beheld
… sent away his four children on the Mayflower as indentured servants to the Puritans, without his wife’s knowledge. Court records indicate the children’s mother searched for years to locate where her children were. In reimagining the Mayflower story and puritans, more broadly, in the context of …
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Colonizing Schemes In An Integrated Atlantic Economy: Labor And Settlement In British East Florida, 1763-1773.
… labor. Others imported white laborers either as indentured servants or tenant farmers. Historians have looked at this differentiation in labor as an important element in the downfall of the colony, but the key question should be: why did each man choose the labor and settlement scheme he did? The …
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"Suitable for all parts": the transformation of menswear in the early American Republic, 1780-1830
In the period between the end of the Revolution and the Jacksonian upheaval of the 1830s, American society transformed. This transformation was visible in the way Americans dressed. The evolution of elite dress is well known. Less appreciated is the role of dress in shaping the political and …
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Crime and punishment in the Delaware River area, 1740-1790, as reported in the Philadelphia newspapers
… whole period. Also, there was constant influx of indentured servants coming into·these colonies. While · most of these servants were not criminally inclined, a considerable number were given to acts of violence and they helped to swell the class of undesirables. ☐ An attempt was made to subject …