Eighteenth-Century White Slaves: Fugitive Notices; Volume I, Pennsylvania, 1729-1760

by Daniel Meaders

While historians of Southern slavery have increasingly come to have access to slave sources, there has been a dearth of easily accessible documents on indentured white servants of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This volume of advertisements for runaway indentured servants helps to address that need. The first of four volumes providing a full collection of these advertisements, this volume covers Pennsylvania from 1729 to 1760, while the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031327987X
• ISBN13: 9780313279874
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"