Unwelcome Americans Living on the Margin in Early New England Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon teaches history at the University of Toledo. Early American Studies 2001 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3592-0 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-1765-0 Paper $24.95s 16.50 World Rights American History, History, Sociology Short copy: "Herndon has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of these most obscure early New Englanders. . . . The resulting study at once opens an important window onto the development of poor-relief policy in America and offers a fascinating account of lives...
Unwelcome Americans Living on the Margin in Early New England Ruth Wallis Herndon Ruth Wallis Herndon teaches history at the University of Tole...
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage.
As Children Bound to Labor makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in early...
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults ...
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage.
As Children Bound to Labor makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in...
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults ...
