White servitude was one of the major institutions in the economy and society of early colonial British America. In fact more than half of all the white immigran

Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspect

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth c

The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving as agricultural, domestic, s

Examines the origin, working conditions, and eventual fate of indentured servants in America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.