Children bound to labor : the pauper apprentice system in early America / / edited by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray

• Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.3/1097309034
• Soggetto topico: Apprenticeship programs - United States - History - 18th century; Apprenticeship programs - United States - History - 19th century; Indentured servants - United States - History - 18th century; Indentured servants - United States - History - 19th century; Poor children - United States - History - 18th century; Poor children - United States - History - 19th century; Child labor - United States - History - 18th century; Child labor - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions 18th century; United States Social conditions 19th century
• Altri autori: HerndonRuth Wallis MurrayJohn E. <1959->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Children bound to labor
• ISBN: 0-8014-5876-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820679203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell paperbacks.