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Children bound to labor : the pauper apprentice system in early America / edited by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cornell paperbacks.
- Cornell paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Apprenticeship programs--United States--History--18th century.
- Apprenticeship programs.
- Apprenticeship programs--United States--History--19th century.
- Indentured servants--United States--History--18th century.
- Indentured servants.
- Indentured servants--United States--History--19th century.
- Poor children--United States--History--18th century.
- Poor children.
- Poor children--United States--History--19th century.
- Child labor--United States--History--18th century.
- Child labor.
- Child labor--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status.
- Contents:
- "A proper and instructive education" : raising children in pauper apprenticeship / Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray
- Recreating proper families in England and North America : pauper apprenticeship in transatlantic context / Steve Hindle and Ruth Wallis Herndon
- "Proper" magistrates and masters : binding out poor children in southern New England, 1720-1820 / Ruth Wallis Herndon
- Orphans in city and countryside in nineteenth-century Maryland / T. Stephen Whitman
- Bound out from the almshouse : community networks in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1860 / Monique Bourque
- Preparing children for adulthood in New Netherland / Adriana E. van Zwieten
- Mothers and children in and out of the Charleston orphan house / John E. Murray
- The extent and limits of indentured children's literacy in New Orleans, 1809-1843 / Paul Lachance
- "To train them to habits of industry and usefulness" : molding the poor children of antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley
- Responsive justices : court treatment of orphans and illegitimate children in colonial Maryland / Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo
- The stateless and the orphaned among Montreal's apprentices, 1791-1842 / Gillian Hamilton
- Apprenticeship policy in Virginia : from patriarchal to republican policies of social welfare / Holly Brewer
- Conclusion : reflections on the demand and supply of child labor in early America / Gloria L. Main.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5876-5
- OCLC:
- 726824187
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