Indentured migration and the servant trade from London to America, 1618-1718 : "There is great want of servants"
John Wareing
The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonisation has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves. 'There is Great Want of Servants' provides the first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, which delivered the majority of an estimated 457,000 white people who migrated to the American colonies before 1720. English colonisation intended to create 'new Englands out of England' - to enlarge trade and plantation - but settlement required people to work the land. Labour had to be transported over 4,000 miles of threatening ocean in a new system of indentured servitude, in which people paid for their transportation and keep, with four years of unpaid service for adults, and more for children and adolescents. The system was not benign, neither in the sugar plantations of the West Indies and the tobacco plantations of Maryland and Virginia, nor at the centre of the trade in London and in other ports such as Bristol.--Dust jacket
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2017 ; First edition
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Authors: | Wareing, John |
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Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press |
Subject: | Arbeitsmigranten | Migrant workers | Kolonialismus | Colonialism | Geschichte | History | Großbritannien | United Kingdom | USA | United States | England | Amerika | Migration | Geschichte 1618-1718 | 1600-1800 |
Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
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Extent: | viii, 298 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-294 |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-878890-4 |
Classification: | USA ; Großbritannien, Irland |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638042
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