Dateline: Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1687. Margaret felt ill-used by her mistress. She ran away. What happened when they caught her?
Margaret Johnson, a Runaway Indentured Servant
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Positive Lessons from Indentured Servants in Colonial America
An indenture was a simply a contract. There was nothing automatically oppressive about it, unless people abused its terms. Here are stories of success and kindness. Real people, real lives, real places. This post updates the one at American Thinker.
Indentured Servants, Indians, and Rum, in Philadelphia, 1684-85
This time the combination and interaction turned out bad.
