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  • German Immigrant Servant Contracts. Registered at the Port of Philadelphia, 1817-1831
    Farley Grubb
    More than forty percent of all German immigrants entering the port of Philadelphia in the early 19th century entered into servitude as a means of paying for their passage. After the servant contract was negotiated and the shipper paid, the contract was registered with the government. This register of servant contracts, one of the few existing documents that can be used to ident...
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    24,09 €

  • Runaway Servants, Convicts, and Apprentices Advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1796
    Farley Grubb / Farley Ward Grubb
    Perhaps more than half of all immigrants arriving in the mid-Atlantic region in the 18th century were persons engaged to work for a fixed term of years--runaway servants, convicts, or apprentices--and, owing to various tribulations, thousands of these laborers absconded from their contracts, leaving their masters little choice but to advertise in the newspapers for their captur...
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    27,94 €