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"Drinks Hard, and Swears Much": White Maryland Runaways, 1770-1774 by 
"Given to Drinking and Whoring": White Maryland Runaways, 1720-1762 by 
The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 by 
"She Snuffs, Drinks and Smokes": White Pennsylvania Runaways, 1776-1783 by 
"Sly and Artful Rogues": Maryland Runaways, 1775-1781 by 
"When Drunk Is Very Bold": White Maryland Runaways, 1763-1769 by 
Apprentices of Connecticut, 1637-1900 by Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800 by Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by 
Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America by The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686 by British Deportees to America by Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778 by Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778 by 
Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America by 
Colonists for Sale by Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776 by 
The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 by 
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Rev. ed. by District of Columbia Indentures of Apprenticeship, 1801-1893 by 
Down and Out in Early America by Early Child Immigrants to Virginia, 1619-1642 by 
East Tennessee's Forgotten Children by Economic Aspects of Indentured Servitude in Colonial Pennsylvania by 
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789, with Supplementary Bibliography by Emigrants in Chains: A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and Other Undesirables, 1607-1776 by 
Emigrants to America: Indentured Servants Recruited in London, 1718-1733 by 
The German Immigration into Pennsylvania through the Port of Philadelphia, from 1700 to 1775, and The Redemptioners by Government and Labor in Early America, with a New Preface by the Author, by 
The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by 
Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, North East Scotland by 
Maryland and Virginia Convict Runaways, 1725-1800 : A Survey of English Sources by 
Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children by 
Migrants, Servants, and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British America by 
More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 by Record of Indentures of Individuals Bound Out as Apprentices, Servants, etc., and of German and Other Redemptioners in the Office of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, October 3, 1771, to October 5, 1773. With a New Index, by 
Runaway Servants, Convicts, and Apprentices by 
Servants and Servitude in Colonial America by 
Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History by Supplement to the Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 by 
West Tennessee's Forgotten Children by 
White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis by White Servitude in Pennsylvania by 
White Slave Children of Charles County, Maryland by 
White Slave Children of Colonial Maryland and Virginia by 
Without Indentures: Index to White Slave Children in Colonial Court Records [Maryland and Virginia] by 
