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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.
Escaping Matrimony is a documentary history of hundreds of husbands
and wives who ran away from one another over the course of the
eighteenth-century. In this collection of elopement advertisements,
men and women protested marriage, challenged coverture, and
declared themselves independent and free. In an endeavor to
discredit and intimidated their spouses, husbands and wives used
early American newspapers to achieved at once voice and agency in a
complex world that would have preferred that they endured unnoticed
and in silence.
Escaping Slavery is a documentary history of Native Americans in
British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures
the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their
humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early
America.
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.
Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in
Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700-1789 is an edited collection
of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in
eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and
New Hampshire. In addition to documenting the New England fugitive,
it compliments similar runaway notice compilations. This
compilation provides valuable insights into an important chapter in
the history of slavery.
Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in
Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700-1789 is an edited collection
of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in
eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and
New Hampshire. In addition to documenting the New England fugitive,
it compliments similar runaway notice compilations. This
compilation provides valuable insights into an important chapter in
the history of slavery.
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