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Bound and filed: a seventeenth-century service indenture from a scattered archive

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The history of indentured migration to seventeenth-century English America relies heavily on a single body of sources known as the London record, a collection of contracts and registrations of servants who emigrated from the capital between 1683 and 1686. Of the original 1,000 contracts, 189 have long been considered to be missing. This article uses methods from the study of paperwork and print culture to demonstrate that Huntington Library item HM 1365 is one of those missing contracts. Read...

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10.1353/eam.2021.0005

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Rothermere American Institute
Oxford college:
St Peter's College
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The North American Conference on British Studies-Huntington Library Fellowship More from this funder
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Early American Studies Journal website
Volume:
19
Issue:
1
Pages:
166-190
Publication date:
2021-02-03
Acceptance date:
2020-08-15
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EISSN:
1559-0895
ISSN:
1543-4273
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1135816
Local pid:
pubs:1135816
Deposit date:
2020-10-02

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