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10%OFFRuth Wallis Herndon (Ed.) - Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America - 9780801475597 - V9780801475597
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Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America

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Description for Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America Paperback. Editor(s): Herndon, Ruth Wallis; Murray, John E. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.

The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage.As Children Bound to Labor makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in early America. The economic, social, and political ... Read more

Contributors: Monique Bourque, Willamette University; Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University; Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto; Ruth Wallis Herndon, Bowling Green State University; Steve Hindle, University of Warwick; Paul Lachance, University of Ottawa; Timothy J. Lockley, University of Warwick; Gloria L. Main, University of Colorado, Boulder; John E. Murray, University of Toledo; Jean B. Russo, Historic Annapolis Foundation; Jean Elliott Russo, independent scholar; Adriana E. van Zwieten, Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators; T. Stephen Whitman, Mount St. Mary's University

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475597
SKU
V9780801475597
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ruth Wallis Herndon (Ed.)
Ruth Herndon is Associate Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England. John Murray is Professor of Economics at University of Toledo. He is the author of Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds.

Reviews for Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America
Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have gathered together twelve fine essays in this volume that provides welcome insight into the varied apprenticeship practices on display in North America from the late seventeenth century through the mid nineteenth. Children Bound to Labor demonstrates that apprenticeship was a pervasive and remarkably flexible institution that could be adapted to fit divergent ... Read more

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