Children bound to labor : the pauper apprentice system in early America

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- OVERVIEWS -- "A Proper and Instructive Education" -- Recreating Proper Families in England and North America -- BINDING OUT AS A MASTER/SERVANT RELATION -- "Proper" Magistrates and Masters -- Orphans in City and Countryside in Nineteenth-Century Maryland -- Bound Out from the Almshouse -- BINDING OUT AS A PARENT/CHILD RELATION -- Preparing Children for Adulthood in New Netherland -- Mothers and Children in and out of the Charleston Orphan House -- The Extent and Limits of Indentured Children's Literacy in New Orleans, 1809-1843 -- "To Train Them to Habits of Industry and Usefulness" -- BINDING OUT AS A FAMILY/STATE RELATION -- Responsive Justices -- The Stateless and the Orphaned among Montreal's Apprentices, 1791-1842 -- Apprenticeship Policy in Virginia -- Reflections on the Demand and Supply of Child Labor in Early America -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.