Abstract
Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. The significance and origins of the colonial indenture system Part II. Characteristics of the servant population 2. The age and sex distributions of the indentured servants 3. The occupations of the indentured servants in the seventeenth-century 4. Occupations of the eighteenth-century indentured servants 5. Literacy and the occupations of the indentured servants Part III. Migration and the transatlantic market for indentured servants 6. Patterns of servant migration from England to America 7. The market for indentured servants Part IV. White servitude in the colonial labour market: 8. The role of the indenture system in the colonial labour market 9. The indenture system and the colonial labour market Part V. Indentured servitude in American history: 10. Indentured labour in the Americas Appendices Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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