Indentures of Apprentices
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Apprentices |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor |
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Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Law |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor |
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Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Apprentices |
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Author | : Ruth Wallis Herndon |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801457521 |
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage. As Children Bound to Labor makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in early America. The economic, social, and political development of the colonies and then the states cannot be told properly without taking them into account. Binding out pauper apprentices was a widespread practice throughout the colonies from Massachusetts to South Carolina-poor, illegitimate, orphaned, abandoned, or abused children were raised to adulthood in a legal condition of indentured servitude. Most of these children were without resources and often without advocates. Local officials undertook the responsibility for putting such children in family situations where the child was expected to work, while the master provided education and basic living needs. The authors of Children Bound to Labor show the various ways in which pauper apprentices were important to the economic, social, and political structure of early America, and how the practice shaped such key relations as master-servant, parent-child, and family-state in the young republic. In considering the practice in English, Dutch, and French communities in North America from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, Children Bound to Labor even suggests that this widespread practice was notable as a positive means of maintaining social stability and encouraging economic development.
Author | : New York Historical Society |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781429736572 |
Author | : Philadelphia Mayor |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780331684735 |
Excerpt from Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound Out as Apprentices, Servants, Etc., And of German and Other Redemptioners in the Office of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia: October 3, 1771, to October 5, 1773 Philadelphia Servant Philadelphia 5 yrs. Northampton twp., Bucks co 6 yrs 21. Northampton twp., Bucks co 7 yrs 20. New London twp., Chester co. 4 yrs each 58 14. Each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Industrial Commission of Wisconsin |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Apprentices |
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Author | : Dorothy S. Provine |
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Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Apprentices |
ISBN | : 9781888265286 |
Author | : Karin Lorene Zipf |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807130452 |
On an autumn day in 1866, Wiley Ambrose and Hepsey Saunders, two former slaves who lived as husband and wife, received a knock at their door. Three men from a plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina, presented court-ordered apprenticeship papers authorizing the immediate seizure of the couple's daughters, fifteen-year-old Harriet and thirteen-year-old Eliza. After a brief stay in jail with other children, the sisters were sent to work as plantation servants and field hands until age twenty-one. With that startling example, Karin L. Zipf begins Labor of Innocents, the first comprehensive exploration of forced apprenticeship in North Carolina. Zipf refuses to nostalgically view apprenticeship as a benign form of vocational training for children and instead presents irrefutable evidence that the institution existed as a means to control the composition and character of families, to provide alternate sources of cheap labor, and to ensure a white patriarchal social order. Codified by law, involuntary apprenticeship allowed courts not only to define who was an unacceptable parent but also to indenture their children. Disproportionately affected were the poor. Zipf details the continual fluidity of the institution from its colonial origins to its twentieth-century demise. Over two hundred years, the definition of an unfit head of household variously included black men, any woman, and widowed or unmarried white women, depending upon the current social and political agenda of authorities. Parents of both races and sexes challenged the laws vigorously and repeatedly to no effect until progressive reforms ended apprenticeship in 1919 with passage of the Child Welfare Act. An impressive blend of legal, social, and labor history, Labor of Innocents illuminates past concepts of family and the realities families endured.