Colonists in Bondage
White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
Smith, Abbot Emerson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
Year Published: 2012 First Published: 1947
Pages: 443pp ISBN: 978-0-8078-3968-3
Library of Congress Number: HD4875.U5 S5 1965 Dewey: 331.50973
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX15927
This is the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one.