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Author | : Indra Zuno |
Publisher | : Spinning a Yarn Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2020-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781734165227 |
In this historical novel set in Colonial America, two indentured servants cross paths and fall in love. One, an Ulster-Scot youth, sells his freedom to pay for his passage from Ireland to the New World. The other, a London orphan pickpocket girl, is sentenced to servitude.
Author | : Marci Michelle Faith Prescott-Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
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Freedom dues were typically payments of money, land, or clothing that masters gave to servants upon completion of servitude. Using case studies, this thesis captures the arc of a historic transformation in how freedom dues were perceived between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries; it illuminates how these dues became a humanitarian symbol and the narrative of self-actualization that arose about them. The narrative focus on freedom dues was generated through tracts advocating immigration to colonial America and was integral to early understandings of the promise of New World prosperity. The texts I address use this narrative to critique a society failing to live up to its implied ideal: enfranchisement through hard work. My thesis reveals that often relations of servitude morph into something that looks dangerously akin to chattel slavery. In Chapter One, I contrast the Lawes and Libertyes (1648), where servants were to be prevented from "be[ing] sent away emptie," to the revisioning of this framework in the Fugitive Slave Law (1850), which enshrined slaves' perpetual indebtedness. In Chapter Two, I use the Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (1692-93) to examine how Tituba's claim that the devil offered her an indenture followed by many "fine things" came to influence other testimonies. I argue that the narrative Tituba and others craft regarding the Devil's promise of servitude properly rewarded but not supplied by Massachusetts's governors would have been shocking in New England at the time. Chapter Three analyses The Scarlet Letter (1850) and reveals that, by presenting Hester Prynne as a branded, lifelong indentured servant, Hawthorne effectively portrays a variety of servitude that appears similar to black slavery. Hester and Pearl have their customary white privileges undermined, I argue, and Hawthorne's novel reveals abolitionist leanings. In Chapter Four, I consider Harriet Wilson's autobiographical text, Our Nig (1859). The Bellmonts' refusal to provide proper freedom dues to the novel's protagonist highlights the degree to which her servitude has been slavish, and Wilson's plea for support to remedy this wrong provides a final critique of "free" New England.
Author | : Robert H. Abel |
Publisher | : Dial Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
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This gift set includes a special hardcover edition of the beloved book that contains fold-out peek-a-boo pages and variety of textures for touching, and a soft, fuzzy stuffed duckling. This makes an ideal gift for any toddler or new baby. Full-color illustrations. 6 1/2 x 12 x 3 (box). Consumable.
Author | : Don Jordan |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814742963 |
White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide "breeders" for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.
Author | : Outlet |
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Release | : 1983-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780517418390 |
Author | : Robert H. Abel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780385270465 |
Author | : Susan E. Klepp |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271041131 |
A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.
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Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1814 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Henry Sassaman Dotterer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Perkiomen Creek and Valley (Pa.) |
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Author | : American Bar Association. House of Delegates |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590318737 |
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