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Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607-1800 / Kenneth Morgan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: BAAS Paperbacks : BAASPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781853312106
  • 9781474471107
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3620973 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Indentured Servitude in the Seventeenth Century -- CHAPTER 2 From Servitude to Slavery -- CHAPTER 3 Convicts, Indentured Servants and Redemptioners, 1680-1775 -- CHAPTER 4 Slavery in the Eighteenth Century -- CHAPTER 5 Slave and Servant Resistance -- CHAPTER 6 Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781853312106);A textbook introduction to one of the most important areas of early American history.Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout overriding themes emerge: the labour market in North America, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labour, and resistance to bondage.This is an ideal introduction to an area that is crucial for understanding not just Colonial American society but also the later development of the United States."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Indentured Servitude in the Seventeenth Century -- CHAPTER 2 From Servitude to Slavery -- CHAPTER 3 Convicts, Indentured Servants and Redemptioners, 1680-1775 -- CHAPTER 4 Slavery in the Eighteenth Century -- CHAPTER 5 Slave and Servant Resistance -- CHAPTER 6 Slavery and Freedom in the Revolutionary Era -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781853312106);A textbook introduction to one of the most important areas of early American history.Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout overriding themes emerge: the labour market in North America, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labour, and resistance to bondage.This is an ideal introduction to an area that is crucial for understanding not just Colonial American society but also the later development of the United States."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)