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

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

This is the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who

From 1609 until well after the founding of the Republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. Author John

This book explores the operation of the Atlantic slave trade industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour o