Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History Of Runaway Servants In Eighteenth-century Virginia

by Antonio T. Bly

2020-12-29 17:50:55

Escaping Servitude is the story of indentured servants in early Virginia protesting with their feet. Breaking with historical orthodoxy insisting that Bacon''s Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virgin... Read more
Escaping Servitude is the story of indentured servants in early Virginia protesting with their feet. Breaking with historical orthodoxy insisting that Bacon''s Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virginians achieved racial hegemony in the eighteenth century, Escaping Servitude debunks the myth of the benign institution and the sentimentalized, content servant and reveals revolt and day-to-day resistance. Less

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File size9.3 X 6.47 X 1.47 in
Print pages444
PublisherLexington Books
Publication date December 24, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780739192740
Antonio T. Bly is assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina....

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