Immigrant Servant Labor
Their Occupational and Geographic Distribution in the Late Eighteenth- Century Mid-Atlantic Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11204348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Farley Grubb (0000-0001-7952-105X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249-276 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s014555320001508x |
| OpenAlex | W2325931984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 12 |
Contract Labor played a critical role both in financing European trans-Atlantic migration and in providing a hirable labor force to work the estates of the New World. During the seventeenth century at least three-quarters of the Chesapeake colonists arrived under some form of short term contract (Walsh, 1977: 111). By the American Revolution, a majority of English, German, and southern Irish emigrants still used servant contracts to finance their migration to Pennsylvania (Grubb, 1985). For the year 1773, 61% of the 387 southern Irish immigrants, 18% of the 1,420 Ulster immigrants, 25% of the 382 Scotch immigrants, and 52% of the 174 English immigrants to Pennsylvania entered servitude. For the years 1771–1773, out of 747 German adult male immigrants to Pennsylvania 58% entered servitude. For 1785–1804, 45% of the 7,837 German immigrants to Pennsylvania entered servitude
Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic history · Economics · Emigration · German · Immigration · Irish · Political science · Servant · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Taxation and Compliance Studies
Babes in Bondage? Debt Shifting by German Immigrants in Early America
Redemptioner Immigration to Pennsylvania
Educational Choice in the Era Before Free Public Schooling
Servitude in the 18th‐century British Atlantic World
The Auction of Redemptioner Servants, Philadelphia, 1771–1804
The Market for Indentured Immigrants
The End of European Immigrant Servitude in the United States
The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude
Colonial labor markets and the length of indenture
Reconsidering Indentured Servitude
The Transatlantic Market for British Convict Labor
The Holocaust and New World slavery a comparative history
From Servants to Slaves
Law, Society and Politics in Early Maryland
Population Distribution in Colonial America
Death and Life in a Colonial Immigrant City
The incidence of servitude in trans-Atlantic migration, 1771–1804
White Servitude and the Growth of Black Slavery in Colonial America
Colonial labor in transition
Patterns of Slaveholding in Colonial Pennsylvania
Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland
Artisans, Journeymen, and the Transformation of Labor in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Population Distribution in Colonial America
Slaves and Slaveowners in Colonial Philadelphia
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2019 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |