This study of the role of indentured servitude in late colonial Maryland offers a new perspective on the transformation of its labour force from white servants to African slaves. Based on contemporary legislation, correspondence and periodicals, it argues that increased economic stratification, consequent in part on the introduction of a self-perpetuating workforce on the large plantations, slowed the transition to slavery in the early eighteenth century. Among smaller planters too poor to buy slaves, the demand for relatively unskilled white servants persisted throughout the colonial period. Cette étude du rôle des engagés au Maryland à la fin de la période coloniale offre une perspective nouvelle de la transformation de la force de trava...
The image of America as a land of freedom and opportunity emerged long before its establishment as a...
During the Maryland's colonial period, African slaves were tried in county courts, courts of oyer an...
When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe character-istics such as the h...
The role of white servitude evolved in a similar way during the course of the American colonial peri...
White Indentured servitude is a much neglected area of economic history. There has been in recent ye...
In the mainland British American colonies, slavery as an institution evolved throughout the seventee...
This paper examines the market for human capital created by the institution of indentured servitude ...
Although indentured servitude remained a viable source of labor in colonial America and eighteenth-c...
This paper examines the market for human capital created by the institution of indentured servitude ...
While slavery has long been a subject of intense popular and scholarly interest, the comparatively u...
Was indentured servitude the cornerstone of slavery? If such a premise is to be accepted, then the i...
This thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art...
There were many paths from slavery to free labor in the Americas and the Caribbean. In some cases, ...
Race based slavery in North America had its origins in seventeenth-century Virginia. Initially, the ...
We seek to understand and illustrate the journeys and stories of indentured servants who traveled ac...
The image of America as a land of freedom and opportunity emerged long before its establishment as a...
During the Maryland's colonial period, African slaves were tried in county courts, courts of oyer an...
When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe character-istics such as the h...
The role of white servitude evolved in a similar way during the course of the American colonial peri...
White Indentured servitude is a much neglected area of economic history. There has been in recent ye...
In the mainland British American colonies, slavery as an institution evolved throughout the seventee...
This paper examines the market for human capital created by the institution of indentured servitude ...
Although indentured servitude remained a viable source of labor in colonial America and eighteenth-c...
This paper examines the market for human capital created by the institution of indentured servitude ...
While slavery has long been a subject of intense popular and scholarly interest, the comparatively u...
Was indentured servitude the cornerstone of slavery? If such a premise is to be accepted, then the i...
This thesis was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art...
There were many paths from slavery to free labor in the Americas and the Caribbean. In some cases, ...
Race based slavery in North America had its origins in seventeenth-century Virginia. Initially, the ...
We seek to understand and illustrate the journeys and stories of indentured servants who traveled ac...
The image of America as a land of freedom and opportunity emerged long before its establishment as a...
During the Maryland's colonial period, African slaves were tried in county courts, courts of oyer an...
When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe character-istics such as the h...