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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 sold" themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one. Their leaven has gone into the fiber of American society."

Originally published in 1947.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Part I: The Trade in Servants
  1. 1. Indentured Servants and Redemptioners
  2. pp. 3-25
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  1. 2. The Trade in Servants: Two Controlling Factors
  2. pp. 26-42
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  1. 3. Raising a Cargo
  2. pp. 43-66
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  1. 4. Kidnapping, Spiriting, and Registry Offices
  2. pp. 67-86
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  1. Part II: Penal Transportation
  1. 5. Convict Transportation to 1718
  2. pp. 89-109
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  1. 6. Convict Transportation after 1718
  2. pp. 110-135
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  1. 7. The Transportation of Rogues and Vagabonds
  2. pp. 136-151
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  1. 8. The Transportation of Political and Military Prisoners under the Commonwealth and Protectorate
  2. pp. 152-174
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  1. 9. The Transportation of Political and Military Prisoners after 1660
  2. pp. 175-204
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  1. Part III: The Servant in the Plantations
  1. 10. Voyage and Arrival
  2. pp. 207-225
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  1. 11. The Custom of the Country
  2. pp. 226-252
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  1. 12. The Servant in the Plantations
  2. pp. 253-284
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  1. 13. Freed Servants
  2. pp. 285-306
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  1. Appendix: The Number and Distribution of Indentured Servants
  2. pp. 307-338
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 339-396
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  1. Bibliographical Note
  2. pp. 397-418
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  1. Index
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