Description:
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...
Brief description: Ruth Herndon is Associate Professor of History at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England. John Murray is Professor of Economics at University of Toledo. He is the author of Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds.
Review Quotes:
Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray have gathered together twelve fine essays in this volume that provides welcome insight into the varied apprenticeship practices on display in North America from the late seventeenth century through the mid nineteenth. Children Bound to Labor demonstrates that apprenticeship was a pervasive and remarkably flexible institution that could be adapted to fit divergent political and economic contexts in early America.
-- "Georgia Historical Quarterly"