Embittered, Impaired, Macerated
Malcolm Gaskill: Indentured Servitude, 6 October 2022
Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies
by Anna Suranyi.
McGill-Queen’s, 278 pp., £26.99, July 2021,978 0 2280 0668 8 Show More
by Anna Suranyi.
McGill-Queen’s, 278 pp., £26.99, July 2021,
“... and raped, usually without the culprit being brought to justice. Some fared better than others: Richard Ligon, a royalist fugitive to Barbados, observed that much depended on the master. Tender-hearted men gave servants work ‘as is not unfit for Christians to do’; but the cruel ones made their lives ‘very wearisome and miserable’.More than a few ... ”