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- catalog abstract "From 1609 until well after the founding of the Republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. Author John van der Zee draws on original memoirs, newspapers, and pamphlets to re-create the life stories of a number of the remarkable men and women whose enshacklement and destitution paved the way for American freedom. From the narratives of convicts, redemptioners (who accepted servitude in exchange for transportation to America), and those who were "spirited away" (snatched against their will), van der Zee weaves a colorful "people's history" of colonial and Revolutionary times. In their own words and through their own eyes, we meet such men and women as the first labor organizer in America; the young nobleman whose memoirs inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped; and a real-life Moll Flanders. The book also offers a surprising new interpretation of the Revolution as growing out of this widespread practice of servitude.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b504979.
- catalog coverage "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects.".
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 365-373.".
- catalog description "From 1609 until well after the founding of the Republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. Author John van der Zee draws on original memoirs, newspapers, and pamphlets to re-create the life stories of a number of the remarkable men and women whose enshacklement and destitution paved the way for American freedom. From the narratives of convicts, redemptioners (who accepted servitude in exchange for transportation to America), and those who were "spirited away" (snatched against their will), van der Zee weaves a colorful "people's history" of colonial and Revolutionary times. In their own words and through their own eyes, we meet such men and women as the first labor organizer in America; the young nobleman whose memoirs inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped; and a real-life Moll Flanders. The book also offers a surprising new interpretation of the Revolution as growing out of this widespread practice of servitude.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "382 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Bound over.".
- catalog identifier "0671541188".
- catalog isFormatOf "Bound over.".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon and Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Bound over.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Social aspects.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "HD4875.U5 V36 1985".
- catalog subject "Indentured servants United States History.".
- catalog title "Bound over : indentured servitude and American conscience / by John van der Zee ; foreword by John Patrick Diggins.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".