{"product_id":"children-bound-to-labor-the-pauper-apprentice-system-in-early-america-9780801446245","title":"Children Bound to Labor  The Pauper Apprentice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have gathered together twelve fine essays in this volume that provides welcome insight into the varied apprenticeship practices on display in North America from the late seventeenth century through the mid nineteenth. \u003ci\u003eChildren Bound to Labor \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that apprenticeship was a pervasive and remarkably flexible institution that could be adapted to fit divergent political and economic contexts in early America.\u003c\/p\u003e * Georgia Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis excellent collection brings together a dozen essays that explore the history and significance of pauper apprenticeship (also known as orphan apprenticeship or binding out). Most of the essays are based on detailed research in the records and circumstances of particular communities; they focus on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and range across North America, mainly in the British colonies but with interesting essays on New Netherland and Montreal as well. Taken together, these essays do much to advance our knowledge of the institution, and they make a convincing cases for its importance to our understanding of early American culture and development, including the central issues of labor, poverty, ideas about child rearing, society, and the state, and the effects of economic and social changes.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Helena M. Wall * Journal of Southern History *","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577472389463,"sku":"9780801446245","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801446245.jpg?v=1746095453","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-bound-to-labor-the-pauper-apprentice-system-in-early-america-9780801446245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}