Escaping Servitude

Author : Antonio T. Bly
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739192752
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping Servitude written by Antonio T. Bly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia is an edited collection of runaway servant advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Virginia. In addition to documenting the fugitive in the Chesapeake, it adds to our understanding of indentured servitude and provides valuable insights into an important chapter in American history. Escaping Servitude’s contribution to scholarship is threefold. First, it calls new attention to the scant scholarly body of work concerning indentured servitude; specifically, the work pertaining to fugitive servants. Highlighting well over one thousand accounts in which bondsmen and women ran away from their masters in Virginia during the colonial era, Escaping Servitude complements Abbot Emerson Smith’s Colonist in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776, Edmund Morgan’s American, American Freedom, David W. Galenson’s White Servitude in Colonial America, Anthony Parent Jr.’s Foul Means, Don Jordon and Michael Walsh’s White Cargo, and others studies of American serfdom. Secondly, considering that there is currently no other documentary history in print for other colonies in British America, Escaping Servitude hopes to inspire similar histories for eighteenth-century Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and the northern colonies. Less known are the life stories of indentures who absconded in other parts of British America. Finally, in its explication of the lives of the unfree, Escaping Servitude hopes to expand the current academic discourse regarding the history of slavery and race.

Author : Antonio T. Bly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793632715
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping Slavery written by Antonio T. Bly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.

Author : Peggy Caravantes
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 9781503825307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping Slavery written by Peggy Caravantes and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages readers with incredible stories of people who made daring escapes from slavery. With clever plans and the help of the Underground Railroad, these people escaped enslavement to find freedom. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, informative infographics, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, a selected bibliography, an index, information about the author, and sources for further research.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978444942
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Escape from Slavery written by Frederick Douglass and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland around February 1818. He escaped in 1838, but in each of the three accounts he wrote of his life he did not give any details of how he gained his freedom lest slaveholders use the information to prevent other slaves from escaping, and to prevent those who had helped him from being punished.

Author : Anna Suranyi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022800778X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indentured Servitude written by Anna Suranyi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or “spirited away” or were sent forcibly by government agencies as criminals, political rebels, or destitute vagrants. In Indentured Servitude Anna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of these people. The British government, Suranyi argues, profited by supplying labour for the colonies, removing unwanted populations, and reducing incarceration costs within Britain. In addition, it was believed that indigents, especially destitute children, benefited morally from being placed in indenture. Capitalist entrepreneurs who were influential at the highest levels of government made their fortunes from Atlantic trade in goods, indentured servants, and slaves, and their participation in the servant trade contributed to the commercialization of criminal justice. Suranyi breaks new ground in showing how indentured servitude was challenged: once in the colonies, indentured servants adapted resourcefully to their circumstances and rebelled against unfair conditions and abuse by suing their masters, by running away, or through outright revolt. Emerging ideas about race and citizenship led to vehement public debate about the conditions of indentured servants and the ethics of indenture itself, prompting legislation that aimed to curb the worst excesses while slavery continued to expand unchecked.

Author : Ambreen Hai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019769800X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Servitude written by Ambreen Hai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic servitude is a widespread phenomenon in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, where even lower-middle class homes rely on domestic workers (mostly women and children). While social scientists have begun to study this unregulated and exploitative "informal sector," literary critics have not paid attention to servants in South Asian literatures or examined their political or literary significance. Postcolonial Servitude argues that a new generation of writers has begun to rethink this culture of servitude and to devise new forms of writing designed to prompt change in normalized ways of seeing and being. It is the first to offer a sustained exploration of servitude and servants in South Asian English literature, from the early 20th century to the present.

Author : Reuben Hatch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bible Servitude Re-examined written by Reuben Hatch and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Farley Grubb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136682511
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920 written by Farley Grubb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing passage to America came to an end.

Author : William Jay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude written by William Jay and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports from Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: