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(0)Richard Hayes Phillips
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For this book, Dr. Phillips has indexed seventy-five years of handwritten records from Charles County, Maryland (1658-1733) for the first time. The records are nearly complete and most have never been transcribed; 872 'servants' without indentures were brought to this country, and 333 were owned by the judges on the very court that sentenced them to slavery. This book contains three indexes, with detailed abstracts, to servants with or without indentures...
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking work, Richard Hayes Phillips has collected the names of more than five thousand children kidnapped from Ireland, Scotland, England, and New England, and sold into slavery in Maryland and Virginia, c. 1660-1720. By English law dated 1659, it was lawful for justices of the peace to kidnap children found begging or vagrant and ship them to the plantations as servants without indentures. The younger the child, the longer the sentence,...
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"In what is quite possibly the first epic poem in the English language since the nineteenth century, Richard Hayes Phillips has discovered and recounted the stories of kidnapped children whose survival itself was heroic."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone I ever heard, and everything I ever read, told me that all the slaves were black, and all the whites subjected to forced labor were indentured servants, or convict laborers, or impressed sailors. Everyone was wrong. Nobody told me about white slavery in colonial America. If I had trusted the experts, the authorities, I would have missed this story altogether"--p. [vi].
"Picking up where he left off in [...] Without indentures : index to...