I made a comment re DK's article in Time today on Nat Turner.
Should he publish it, here are a couple of references regarding servitudes, etc, in the New World.
Bailyn, Voyagers To The West, Index: Indentured servants, indentures.
J H Elliott, Empires Of The Atlantic World.
Elliott succeeded Howard as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.
Of course there are many books and articles on these topics; These are just the ones I happened to have looked at.
Americans think only black slaves ran away and then were hunted down and hauled back to long servitude and punishment in cruel and barbaric conditions.
See Bailyn's Chapter "Runaway Servants"
For those of you who might distinguish white servitude in colonial America very far from black slavery there, you're in a blind, American history dreamland.
See especially Bailyn, Voyagers, Index, slaves, slaves and indentured servants, and the passages cited.
Allison had a very poignant video lecture, the Teaching Company, touching on what happened to most 17th century white indentees here. Huge numbers.
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