Indentured Servitude : Unfree Labor and Citizenship in the British Colonies / Anna Suranyi.

"Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or "spirited away" or were sent forcibly by government agencies as criminals...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:States, people, and the history of social change ; 4.
Main Author: Suranyi, Anna, 1967- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Montreal, Quebec ; Kingston, Ontario ; London, England ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Series:States, people, and the history of social change ; 4.
Subjects:
Indentured servants > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Indentured servants > Great Britain > Social conditions > 17th century.
Contract labor > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Slave labor > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Contract labor.
Indentured servants.
Slave labor.
Great Britain.
1600-1699
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Format: Book

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