Indentured Servants Colonial Era and Colonial Slaves

• Slavery and Indentured Servants - 

• Digital History - 

• Indentured Servitude-Digital History -Author: John Hammond -Date:1656

  • On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants Digital History-Author: Gottlieb Mittelberger -Date:1754

• From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery 

• Indentured Servants In The U.S. - 

• Servitude in British America: Five European Perspectives 

• Indentured Servants- 

  • The Growth of Slavery

• World Book Online - 

• Indentured Servants' Experiences 1600-1700 

• Indentured Servitude in the Colonial U.S. 

• Redemptioners and indentured servants in the colony and commonwealth of ...book 

• Indentured Servants Dictionary of American History 

Gottlieb Mittelberger On the Misfortune indentured Servants -Mittelberger who describes the trip for indentured servants

“We Unfortunate English People Suffer Here”: An English Servant Writes Home by Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father.  This letter describes her situation as an indentured servant.

• Elizabeth Sprigs, Full Letter to Her Father

• Primary Resource Organizer Selection: Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756) 

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- 

• An Apprentice's Indenture Contract - 

Slave narratives.

From the History Matters Web Site: 

Slavery and the Making of America  

North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920  

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1938  

North American Slave Narratives: 

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 -There are slave narratives are on this site and also many other documents related to slavery and the law. 

• Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers project

• //Virginia Gazette// Runaway Slave Advertisements

• Runaway Slave Cases Transcripts

• Record of Labor Owned by James Stone, 1648