Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America
Author | : Kenneth Morgan |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2001-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814756700 |
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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.