A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
by
Antonio T. Bly, Tamia Haygood
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Escaping Servitude is the story of indentured servants in early Virginia protesting with their feet. Breaking with historical orthodoxy insisting that Bacon’s Rebellion marked the death knell of white labor in the Chesapeake and that colonial Virginians achieved racial hegemony in the eighteenth...