Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
by
Daniel Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe...