Indentured+Servants+Colonial+Era+and+Colonial+Slaves

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 * ** History Reference Center **


 * **Slavery and Indentured Servants** - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/slavery.html
 * **Digital History** - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/servitude_slavery/ss_servitude.cfm
 * ** From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery ** - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html
 * **Indentured Servants In The U.S**. - http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/
 * **Servitude in British America: Five European Perspectives** - http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text6/servitude.pdf
 * **Early America** - http://www.boisestate.edu/socwork/dhuff/us/chapters/chapter%202.htm
 * **Indentured Servants**- http://www.ushistory.org/us/5b.asp
 * http://www.ushistory.org/us/6c.asp
 * **World Book Online** - http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar124100&sc=-1#h20
 * **Indentured Servants' Experiences 1600-1700** - http://www.teachervision.fen.com/slavery-us/resource/3848.html
 * **Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U.S**. - http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/rosenbloom.indenture
 * **Redemptioners and indentured servants in the colony and commonwealth of ...book** - http://books.google.com/books?id=McGwbVYXC4EC&ots=yEbuUbHdm2&dq=indentured%20servants%20in%20america&lr&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=indentured%20servants%20in%20america&f=false
 * **Indentured Servants Dictionary of American History -** http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Indentured_servants.aspx

There are slave narratives are on this site and also many other documents related to slavery and the law. The full web page is underneath but it is easier to go to the first address and click on African American History and then slave narratives. The Federal Writers project can be found here
 * [|www.memory.loc.gov]**
 * [|www.memory.loc.gov/ammen/snhtml/snhome.html]**

This is the attachment for Mittelberger who describes the trip for indentured servants
 * [|http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/mittelberger/servan.htm]**

//Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to HerFather,// is located at this site. This letter describes her situation as an indentured servant.
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This is another website for slave narratives. Slave narratives.
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 * Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father
 * Primary Document Organizer, completed
 * Elizabeth Sprigs, Full Letter to Her Father
 * Gottlieb Mittelberger On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants
 * Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers project
 * Primary Document Organizer
 * //Virginia Gazette// Runaway Slave Advertisements
 * Runaway Slave Cases Transcripts
 * Record of Labor Owned by James Stone, 1648

Read the following two documents that provide glimpses into indentured servitude:
 * [|John Frethorne's Letter to his Parents] (1623).
 * [|Indentured Servant's Confession] (1684).


 * Slave Laws in British Colonial New York, 1664—1731**- http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/869
 * An Apprentice's Indenture Contract** - http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1651

** The Decline of Indentured Servitude - **
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site18/The%20Decline%20of%20Indentured%20Servitude.htm