Colonists in bondage

white servitude and convict labor in America. 1607-1776.

by Abbot Emerson Smith

1971 435 pages eng

"This book is about those white people who went to the British colonies in North America and who, because they were unwilling or unable to pay the cost of their own passage, became bond servants for a period of years to some colonial master who paid it for them. They were variously known as indentur…