Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History

Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History
ISBN-10
0814756700
ISBN-13
9780814756706
Category
History
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
2001-08
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Kenneth Morgan

Description

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 labor systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout, overriding themes emerge: the labor market in North America for indentured servants, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labor, and resistance to bondage.

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