Dallas Public Library

1750-1762

White Pennsylvania runaways, compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle - 1750-1762

"The majority of the individuals in this compilation are runaway servants, but quite a number of runaway apprentices, with horse thieves, an occasional murderer and other lowlifes represented"--Introduction to the 1773-1775 volumeMany thousands of white Eurpopeans ... did not come to the colonies as free men and women. Instead they came as indentured servants, political exiles, or transported convicts. White servitude was a major institution of the social and economic fabric of colonial British America. Bound whites preceded the use of black slaves in every colony"--Introduction to the 1773-1775 volume

9780806357829

2016301520

volumes, 22 cm

(OCoLC)ocn927151705(OCoLC)927151705