Questions about indentured servants in the Southern colonies

[malthaussen]

4. The book you want is...

Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West. Now be advised, this is old-school social history for the most part, lots of charts and tables and dry as dust to those whose tastes doesn't run in that direction. The second half of the book is anecdotal first-person accounts of slaves and servants and can be more lively, but it has ironically been criticized the most by the profession because it is "only" narrative accounts and contains no analysis. But if you want to know the who, how, when, and where of the people who came to America from Britain, this is the place to go.

Bernard Bailyn is one of the most highly-regarded scholars of colonial American history. Born in 1922, he's still tickin', and his most recent book was published in 2012.

-- Mal