Children bound to labor: the pauper apprentice system in early America
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. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage. This work makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in early America. The economic, social, and political development of the colonies and then the states cannot be told properly without taking them into account. Binding out pauper apprentices was a widespread practice throughout the colonies from Massachusetts to South Carolina. Poor, illegitimate, orphaned, abandoned, or abused children were raised to adulthood in a legal condition of indentured servitude. Most of these children were without resources and often without advocates. Local officials undertook the responsibility for putting such children in family situations where the child was expected to work, while the master provided education and basic living needs. The authors how the various ways in which pauper apprentices were important to the economic, social, and political structure of early America, and how the practice shaped such key relations as master-servant, parent-child, and family-state in the young republic. In considering the practice in English, Dutch, and French communities in North America from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, this book even suggests that this widespread practice was notable as a positive means of maintaining social stability and encouraging economic development. |
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Contents Acknowledgments ix Part I: Overviews i 1. “A Proper and Instructive Education”: Raising Children in Pauper Apprenticeship 3 HUTII WAU IS llbHNDON AW) JOHN E. MURHAY 2. Recreating Proper Families in England and North America: Pauper Apprenticeship in Transatlantic Context 19 SI EVE HINDLE AND RUTH WALUS HEKNDON Part II: Binding Out as a Master/Servant Relation 37 3. “Proper” Magistrates and Masters: Binding Out Poor Children in Southern New England, 1720-1820 39 RUTH WAI.IIS HERNDON 4. Orphans in City and Countryside in Nineteenth-Century Maryland 52 T. MERMEN WHITMAN 5. Bound Out from the Almshouse: Community Networks in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1860 71 MONIQUE BOURQUE Part III: Binding Out as a Parent/Child Relation 83 6. Preparing Children for Adulthood in New Netherland 87 ADRIANA E. VAN ZWIEThN
Vili CONTENTS 7. Mothers and Children in and out of the Charleston Orphan House 102 JOHN E. MURRAY 8. The Extent and Limits of Indentured Childrens Literacy in New Orleans, 1809-1843 119 PAUL LACHANCE 9. “To Train Them to Habits of Industry and Usefulness”: Molding the Poor Children of Antebellum Savannah 133 TIMOTHY J. LOCKLEY Part IV: Binding Out as a Family/State Relation 149 10. Responsive Justices: Court Treatment of Orphans and Illegitimate Children in Colonial Maryland 151 JEAN B. RUSSO AND J. ELLIOTT RUSSO 11. The Stateless and the Orphaned among Montreal’s Apprentices, 1791-1842 166 GILLIAN HAMILTON 12. Apprenticeship Policy in Virginia: From Patriarchal to Republican Policies of Social Welfare 183 HOLLY BREWER Conclusion: Reflections on the Demand and Supply of Child Labor in Early America 199 GLORIA L. MAIN Notes 213 Bibliography 25$ Contributors 259 Index 261
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