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Children bound to labor : the pauper apprentice system in early America /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Herndon, Ruth Wallis (Editor ), Murray, John E., 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Colección:Cornell paperbacks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "A proper and instructive education" : raising children in pauper apprenticeship / Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray
  • Recreating proper families in England and North America : pauper apprenticeship in transatlantic context / Steve Hindle and Ruth Wallis Herndon
  • "Proper" magistrates and masters : binding out poor children in southern New England, 1720-1820 / Ruth Wallis Herndon
  • Orphans in city and countryside in nineteenth-century Maryland / T. Stephen Whitman
  • Bound out from the almshouse : community networks in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1860 / Monique Bourque
  • Preparing children for adulthood in New Netherland / Adriana E. van Zwieten
  • Mothers and children in and out of the Charleston orphan house / John E. Murray
  • The extent and limits of indentured children's literacy in New Orleans, 1809-1843 / Paul Lachance
  • "To train them to habits of industry and usefulness" : molding the poor children of antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley
  • Responsive justices : court treatment of orphans and illegitimate children in colonial Maryland / Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo
  • The stateless and the orphaned among Montreal's apprentices, 1791-1842 / Gillian Hamilton
  • Apprenticeship policy in Virginia : from patriarchal to republican policies of social welfare / Holly Brewer
  • Conclusion : reflections on the demand and supply of child labor in early America / Gloria L. Main.