ISBN:
9780198788904
,
0198788908
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 298 pages
,
illustrations, maps
,
25 cm
Edition:
First edition
DDC:
306.363097309032
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
;
Geschichte 1600-1700
;
Geschichte 1618-1718
;
Geschichte
;
Migration
;
Kolonisierung
;
Knecht
;
Auswanderung
;
Europa
;
Großbritannien
;
USA
;
Amerika
;
London
;
Indentured servants / United States / History / 17th century
;
Indentured servants / United States / History / 18th century
;
United States / Emigration and immigration / History / 17th century
;
United States / Emigration and immigration / History / 18th century
;
Great Britain / Emigration and immigration / History / 17th century
;
Great Britain / Emigration and immigration / History / 18th century
;
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
;
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
;
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Indentured servants
;
Great Britain
;
United States
;
1600-1799
;
History
;
London
;
Auswanderung
;
Knecht
;
Amerika
;
Kolonisierung
;
Geschichte 1618-1718
Abstract:
The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonisation has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves. 'There is Great Want of Servants' provides the first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, which delivered the majority of an estimated 457,000 white people who migrated to the American colonies before 1720. English colonisation intended to create 'new Englands out of England' - to enlarge trade and plantation - but settlement required people to work the land. Labour had to be transported over 4,000 miles of threatening ocean in a new system of indentured servitude, in which people paid for their transportation and keep, with four years of unpaid service for adults, and more for children and adolescents. The system was not benign, neither in the sugar plantations of the West Indies and the tobacco plantations of Maryland and Virginia, nor at the centre of the trade in London and in other ports such as Bristol.--Dust jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
"To advance the honour of our country" -- English indentured migration : origins, destinations, substitutions -- The traders in the London labour market -- The transported and the traded from London -- Prosecution in the courts and the failure to reinforce the criminal law, 1640-1673 -- Problems in implementing servant registration, 1664-1718 -- England's first transatlantic labour trade, 1618-1718 -- Appendix : The London Record of Indentured Servants, 1683-1686
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