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 servants of the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. This volume of advertisements for runaway
indentured servants helps to address that need. The first of four
volumes providing a full collection of these advertisements, this
volume covers Pennsylvania from 1729 to 1760, while the following
volumes will cover Pennsylvania from 1761 to 1820, South Carolina,
Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts. This collection
will provide a valuable source of information about unfree white
classes in early America, saving hours of research time. Two
appendices, one listing planters by name and one listing runaways
by name, provide access to the people mentioned in the
advertisements. Appendix tables also provide useful statistics
about the runaways.
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