Author: New Zealand. Dept. of LabourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Journal
Author: New Zealand. Dept. of LabourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Indentured Servitude
Author: Anna SuranyiPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022800778X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Colonial Chesapeake Society
Author: Lois Green CarrPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century. Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how property was accumulated and by whom. At the same time, the essays encompass broader issues of early American history, including the transatlantic dimension of colonization, the establishment of communities, both religious and secular, the significance of regionalism, the causes and effects of social and economic diversification, and the participation of Indians and blacks in the formation of societies. Colonial Chesapeake Society consolidates current advances in social history and provokes new questions.
Shaping North America [3 volumes]
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Author: James E. Seelye Jr.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440836698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1167
Book Description
This fascinating multivolume set provides a unique resource for learning about early American history, including thematic essays, topical entries, and an invaluable collection of primary source documents. In 1783, just months after the United States achieved independence from Great Britain, General George Washington was compelled to convince his officers not to undertake a military coup of the Congress of Confederation. Had the planned mutinous coup of the Newburgh Conspiracy gone forward, the American experiment may have ended before it even began. The pre-colonial and colonial periods of early American history are filled with accounts of key events that established the course of our nation's development. This expansive three-volume set provides entries on a wide variety of topics and themes in early American history to elucidate how the United States came to be. Written in straightforward language, the encyclopedic entries on social, political, cultural, and military subjects from the pre-Columbian period through the creation of the Constitution (roughly 1400–1790) will be useful for anyone wishing to deeply investigate the who, what, where, when, and why of early America. Additionally, the breadth of primary documents—including personal diaries, letters, poems, images, treaties, and other legal documents—provides readers with firsthand sources written by the men and women who shaped American history, both the famous and the less well known. Each of the three volumes also presents thematic essays on highlighted topics to fully place the individual entries within their proper historical context and heighten readers' comprehension.
M.T.A. Official Journal
Author: A Trial Bibliography of American Trade-union Publications
Author: George Ernest BarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
White Servitude in Maryland, 1634-1820
Author: Eugene Irving McCormacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indentured servants
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: The Laws Relating to the Poor
Author: Edmund BottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Author: Edmund Bott