The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of
servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving
as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the
northern, middle, and southern British American colonies as well as
British Caribbean colonies. Thousands of people arrived in the
British-American colonies as indentured servants, transported
felons, and kidnapped children forced into bound labor. Others
already in America, such as Indians, freedmen, and poor whites,
placed themselves into the service of others for food, clothing,
shelter, and security; poverty in colonial America was relentless,
and servitude was the voluntary and involuntary means by which the
poor adapted, or tried to adapt, to miserable conditions. From the
1600s to the 1700s, Blacks, Indians, Europeans, Englishmen,
children, and adults alike were indentured, apprenticed,
transported as felons, kidnapped, or served as redemptioners.
Though servitude was more multiracial and multicultural than
slavery, involving people from numerous racial and ethnic
backgrounds, far fewer books have been written about it. This
fascinating new study of servitude in colonial America provides the
first complete overview of the varied lives of the dispossessed in
17th- and 18th-century America, examining colonial American
servitude in all of its forms. Illustrates how a majority of
residents in Colonial America at any given time from 1607 to 1776
were dispossessed of basic freedoms Explains how the dispossessed
Colonial American, deprived of basic rights, generated principles
of freedom and equality that resulted in the American Revolution
Shows that the basic rights of children were ignored in Stuart and
Georgian England, which resulted in their transportation to America
Describes how thousands of inhabitants of Colonial America were
felons reprieved of the death penalty and prisoners of war
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