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

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, conten...

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Main Author: Bly, Antonio T.
Other Authors: Haygood, Tamia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books, 2014.
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