Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718: 'There Is Great Want of Servants'

by John Wareing

The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonization has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves. 'There is Great Want of Servants' provides the first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, which delivered the majority of an estimated 457,000 white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198788908
• ISBN13: 9780198788904
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"