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Escaping Servitude - A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia (Hardcover)
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Escaping Servitude - A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia (Hardcover)
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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.
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