Redemptioners and Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Author(s): Karl Frederick Geiser
Series: Supplement to the YALE REVIEW, Vol. X, No. 2, August, 1901.
Publisher: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor
Year: 1901

Language: English
Pages: 125
City: New Haven, CT

I. Introduction, 5
II. Causes of Immigration, 8
III. The Number and Significance of Redemptioners and Indentured
Servants 23
IV. Historical Sketch of Immigration, 28
V. The Voyage, 43
VI. Laws and Methods of Regulating Transportation, . . .59
VII. The Indenture, 71
VIII. The Runaways, 77
IX. Punitive and Marriage Regulations, 86
X. The Servant in the Army, 94
XI. The Social Status of the Servant, 102
Conclusion, no
Appendices, 113
Bibliography 120
Index, 127