Roger Ekirch - Bound for America (1987) by Roger Ekirch

Roger Ekirch - Bound for America (1987) by Roger Ekirch

Author:Roger Ekirch
Language: fra
Format: epub
Tags: Historique
Published: 2017-06-26T16:00:00+00:00


Map 3. The Chesapeake, 1750

(p.144) established in western Maryland seven years earlier, contained 136 convict servants out of some 14, 000 inhabitants. Of thirty-nine convicts aboard the vessel Hercules when it arrived in Baltimore in 1773, thirty-two were bought by ‘soul drivers’, not only from Frederick but also from Augusta County in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The following year, the Baltimore merchant James Cheston wrote to his partners about several recent shipments of servants: ‘An Indian War which has broke out on the back parts of this Province and Virginia will prevent their being sent there as usual’.1



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