{"product_id":"indentured-servitude-9780228006671","title":"Indentured Servitude","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndentured Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the social, legal, and labour history of the British colonies. Suranyi walks her readers through the many points of the indenture process, the experience of a variety of servants, masters' treatment of different groups of servants in the colonies, servants' means of recourse against abusive masters, and life after servitude, while also directing them to the important connections between servitude and the evolving understanding of citizenship.\" Patrick O'Brien, Kennesaw State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Suranyi’s work provides us with a picture of an era of horrific cruelty preceding and overlapping with the barbarity of slavery. She does not fail to impress upon the reader the difference between servants and the enslaved. \u003ci\u003eIndentured Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e will be useful to those teaching the seventeenth century, for in depicting the lives of people the same age as our students, the history will resonate and help move them toward empathy with those who suffer exploitation, then and now.” \u003ci\u003eAgricultural \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIndentured Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e encourages readers to grapple with important yet difficult questions on inequality and unfreedom to help illuminate changing conceptions of rights, oppression, and exclusion in a society that would later—and contradictorily—champion democratic ideals.”\u003ci\u003e William and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The text will be accessible to a broad range of audiences, as the individual stories, ranging from poignant to bizarre, breathe life into and paint a complex picture of the indenture experience.” \u003cem\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400159863127,"sku":"9780228006671","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780228006671.jpg?v=1730469915","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indentured-servitude-9780228006671","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}