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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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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.