Colonists in Bondage

This is a narrative historical account of indentured servitude and convict labor in the American colonies. Genealogists will value the work for both the background information it provides about the conditions that impelled people who were either unable or unwilling to pay the cost of their own passage to travel to the Americas as well as for the statistical information and lists of sources appended to the work that may lead them to actual indentured or convict laborers.