Title Escaping servitude : a documentary history of runaway servants in eighteenth-century Virginia / Antonio T. Bly and Tamia Haygood

Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 433 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Half slave, half free: a documentary history of runaway servants -- A note on the newspapers -- A note on the notices -- Virginia notices, 1736-1789 -- Appendix A: historiographic note -- Appendix B: tables -- Appendix C: images -- Appendix D: James Revel's sorrowful account -- Appendix E: reprints Summary "Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia is an edited collection of runaway servant advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Virginia. In addition to documenting the fugitive in the Chesapeake, it adds to our understanding of indentured servitude and provides valuable insights into an important chapter in American history. Escaping Servitude's contribution to scholarship is threefold. First, it calls new attention to the scant scholarly body of work concerning indentured servitude; specifically, the work pertaining to fugitive servants. Highlighting well over one thousand accounts in which bondsmen and women ran away from their masters in Virginia during the colonial era, Escaping Servitude complements Abbot Emerson Smith's Colonist in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776, Edmund Morgan's American, American Freedom, David W. Galenson's White Servitude in Colonial America, Anthony Parent Jr.'s Foul Means, Don Jordon and Michael Walsh's White Cargo, and others studies of American serfdom. Secondly, considering that there is currently no other documentary history in print for other colonies in British America, Escaping Servitude hopes to inspire similar histories for eighteenth-century Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and the northern colonies. Less known are the life stories of indentures who absconded in other parts of British America. Finally, in its explication of the lives of the unfree, Escaping Servitude hopes to expand the current academic discourse regarding the history of slavery and race."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-46) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Virginia gnd Subject Indentured servants -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century -- Sources Indentured servants -- Virginia -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Indentured servants Diener Flucht Soziale Situation SUBJECT Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources Subject Virginia Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book Author Haygood, Tamia, 1959- author. ISBN 9780739192757 0739192752

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