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The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 » Read Now
by Robert J. Steinfeld. 277 pgs.

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Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America » Read Now
by Marianne S. Wokeck. 322 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as...
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American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport.
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Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives (Chap. 7 "Freedom and Indentured Labor in the French Caribbean, 1848-1900") » Read Now
by David Eltis. 447 pgs.

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This volume is an innovative history of major worldwide population movements, free and forced, from around 1500 to the early twentieth century. It explores the shifting levels of freedom under which migrants traveled and compares the experiences of migrants (and their descendants) who arrived under...
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This volume is an innovative history of major worldwide population movements, free and forced, from around 1500 to the early twentieth century. It explores the shifting levels of freedom under which migrants traveled and compares the experiences of migrants (and their descendants) who arrived under drastically different labor regimes.
The themes of the collection are structured around changes in migration regimes over time, as well as the implications of those changes for the source and host societies, and the migrants themselves. The central and unifying issue is the varying degrees of freedom in the different migratory regimes and what this meant in the long run. In the initial period covered by the book, freedom to migrate had steadily eroded, and migration itself became gradually more free only in the nineteenth century.
All eleven authors have widely acknowledged expertise not only in particular geographic or national branches of migration but also in more than one migratory or labor regime. The volume's wide geographical range incorporates the expansion of Europe eastward (under serfdom), as well as the extension of Africa and Europe westward across the Atlantic (slave, free, and indentured servant regimes), and movements from Asia and Africa by contract laborers. For the first time, experts on the various kinds of migrants have combined to address the issue of migration from the standpoint of the labor arrangement under which the migrants traveled. The result is a collection rich in comparative insights yet cohesive in terms of the issues addressed.
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Cane and Labour: The Political Economy of the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1862-1906 » Read Now
by Adrian Graves. 284 pgs.

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Eighteenth-Century White Slaves: Fugitive Notices » Read Now
by Daniel Meaders. 584 pgs.

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...While historians of Southern slavery have increasingly come to have access to slave sources, there has been a dearth of easily accessible documents on indentured white...
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White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina » Read Now
by Warren B. Smith. 156 pgs.

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...Introduction of White Indentured Servants...Servants Meet the Labor Demand 21...about a division of labor, with the Negro...work and the white indentured servants...
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A Passionate Affair: The Master-Servant Relationship in Seventeenth-Centure Maryland, in The Historian » Read Now
by Alexa Silver Cawley. 14 pgs.

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...supplied much-needed labor to struggling tobacco...farmers. Studies of indentured servitude traditionally...whether free or indentured, faced an uncomfortable...chronic...
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In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname ("Indentured Labor: Days Worked" begins on p. 125 and "The Cost of Indentured Labor" begins on p. 132) » Read Now
by Rosemarijn Hoefte. 278 pgs.

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Rosemarijn Hoefte explores the rise of indentured servitude on the sugar plantations of Suriname after the end of slavery in that Dutch Caribbean colony in South America. In this first study ever of bonded labor in Suriname, she discusses and compares the social, cultural, and economic consequences...
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Rosemarijn Hoefte explores the rise of indentured servitude on the sugar plantations of Suriname after the end of slavery in that Dutch Caribbean colony in South America. In this first study ever of bonded labor in Suriname, she discusses and compares the social, cultural, and economic consequences of migration and plantation life and offers insights into the system of indentured immigration in general.
Slavery was abolished in Suriname in 1863. Between 1873 and 1940 more than 34,000 British Indians and nearly 33,000 Javanese (a unique presence in the Caribbean) entered Suriname and effectively replaced the former slaves. Working under a contract that included the so-called penal sanction, they were forced to place their labor power at the unqualified disposal of their employers; the employers had the right to press criminal charges against the laborers who broke their contract.
Focusing on Plantation Marienburg, the largest and longest-surviving sugar mill in Suriname, Hoefte examines the reactions of the planters, the colonial state, and the former slaves to this influx of two large ethnic groups with different cultural backgrounds. She describes the hierarchical organization of the plantation and discusses such aspects of indenture as wages, housing, medical care, religion, and education. Both an economic analysis and a pioneering social history, the book fills a gap, in the study of immigration in the Caribbean.
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Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (Chap. VII "A Changing Labor Force and Race Relations in Virginia, 1660-1710") » Read Now
by T. H. Breen. 270 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This collection of essays is concerned with two main issues: first, the way in which the local origins of English colonists influenced their attitudes and adaptation to North America; and second, the contrast between the settlements of Massachusetts and Virginia.
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Into Slavery: Racial Decisions in the Virginia Colony ("White Servitude" begins on p. 14) » Read Now
by Joseph Boskin. 122 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Bechu: 'Bound Coolie' Radical in British Guiana, 1894-1901 » Read Now
by Clem Seecharan. 318 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ISBN: 976-640-071-7 1. Bechu. 2. Indentured servants -- Guyana -- Biography. 3...towards an estimate of this extraordinary indentured labourer, the lacuna was evident...
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Historical Dictionary of the British Empire ("Indentured Laborers" begins on p. 553) » Read Now
by James S. Olson, Robert S. Shadle. 620 pgs.

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As historians evaluate the 20th century, the collapse of the European empires will no doubt be viewed as seminal events. Of all the European empires, the British empire was the most extensive and most enduring. This historical dictionary is a useful source of information on the empire from its...
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As historians evaluate the 20th century, the collapse of the European empires will no doubt be viewed as seminal events. Of all the European empires, the British empire was the most extensive and most enduring. This historical dictionary is a useful source of information on the empire from its beginnings in the 1600s to its collapse in the 20th century. Covering the entire geographical expanse of the empire, it includes entries on the colonies, the people who played a role in the empire, and the major events in the history of the empire.
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