Children bound to labor the pauper apprentice system in early America / edited by Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray.
| Other author | Herndon, Ruth Wallis. |
| Other author | Murray, John E., 1959- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, |
| Description | x, 264 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cornell paperbacks |
| Contents | "A proper and instructive education" : raising children in pauper apprenticeship / Ruth Wallis Herndon and John E. Murray -- Recreating proper families in England and North America : pauper apprenticeship in transatlantic context / Steve Hindle and Ruth Wallis Herndon -- "Proper" magistrates and masters : binding out poor children in southern New England, 1720-1820 / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- Orphans in city and countryside in nineteenth-century Maryland / T. Stephen Whitman -- Bound out from the almshouse : community networks in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1860 / Monique Bourque -- Preparing children for adulthood in New Netherland / Adriana E. van Zwieten -- Mothers and children in and out of the Charleston orphan house / John E. Murray -- The extent and limits of indentured children's literacy in New Orleans, 1809-1843 / Paul Lachance -- "To train them to habits of industry and usefulness" : molding the poor children of antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley -- Responsive justices : court treatment of orphans and illegitimate children in colonial Maryland / Jean B. Russo and J. Elliott Russo -- The stateless and the orphaned among Montreal's apprentices, 1791-1842 / Gillian Hamilton -- Apprenticeship policy in Virginia : from patriarchal to republican policies of social welfare / Holly Brewer -- Conclusion : reflections on the demand and supply of child labor in early America / Gloria L. Main. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-257) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008038925 |
| ISBN | 9780801446245 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801446244 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780801475597 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0801475597 (pbk.) |
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