Contents
Prologue: Human Bondage xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Chapter 1: The Children of Jamestown 1
Chapter 2: Indian Bondage 19
Chapter 3: The Captives of New France 31
Chapter 4: English Town by the Sea 41
Chapter 5: The Dutch Servants of New Netherland and New York 55
Chapter 6: Daniel Defoe’s London 67
Chapter 7: The Voyage of the Free-Willers 81
Chapter 8: Infortunate Servants 93
Chapter 9: Oglethorpe’s Dream 103
Chapter 10: The Prisoners of Culloden 113
Chapter 11: John Harrower and Servitude in the Colonial South 123
Chapter 12: New England Apprentices 135
Chapter 13: Servants and the American Revolution 145
Afterword 157
Appendix: Documents in the History of Colonial American Servitude 159
Sources Consulted 185
Index 199
