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by Antonio T. Bly; Tamia Haygood


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Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia is an edited collection of runaway servant advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Virginia. In addition to documenting the fugitive in the Chesapeake, it adds to our understanding of indentured servitude and provides valuable insights into an important chapter in American history. Escaping Servitude's contribution to scholarship is threefold. First, it calls new attention to the scant scholarly body of work concerning indentured servitude; specifically, the work pertaining to fugitive servants. Highlighting well over one thousand accounts in which bondsmen and women ran away from their masters in Virginia during the colonial era, Escaping Servitude complements Abbot Emerson Smith's Colonist in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776, Edmund Morgan's American, American Freedom, David W. Galenson's White Servitude in Colonial America, Anthony Parent Jr.'s Foul Means, Don Jordon and Michael Walsh's White Cargo, and others studies of American serfdom. Secondly, considering that there is currently no other documentary history in print for other colonies in British America, Escaping Servitude hopes to inspire similar histories for eighteenth-century Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and the northern colonies. Less known are the life stories of indentures who absconded in other parts of British America. Finally, in its explication of the lives of the unfree, Escaping Servitude hopes to expand the current academic discourse regarding the history of slavery and race.

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  • Title Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
  • Author Antonio T. Bly; Tamia Haygood
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Date 2016-08-29
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9781498503785 / 1498503780
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Virginia - History - Colonial period, ca., Indentured servants - Virginia - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014032822
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.363

About the author

Antonio T. Bly is associate professor of history at Appalachian State University.

Tamia Haygood is a graduate teaching fellow at Appalachian State University.
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