Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
ISBN-10
0739192752
ISBN-13
9780739192757
Category
History
Pages
456
Language
English
Published
2014-12-24
Publisher
Lexington Books
Authors
Antonio T. Bly, Tamia Haygood

Description

Breaking with historical orthodoxy that claims Bacon’s Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virginians achieved racial hegemony in the eighteenth century, Escaping Servitude debunks the myth of the benign institution and the sentimentalized, content servant and reveals revolt and day-to-day resistance.

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