Skip to Main Content

Bristol’s White Slave Trade

£1.50

Bristol’s White Slave Trade – Indentured and Enforced Labour In The 17th Century, by Andrea Button

 

In stock

SKU: AD-1060 Category:

Description

Bristol’s role as a supplier of labour to the American and West Indian colonies in the eighteenth century is associated with the African Slave Trade however, this trade was not officially open to the Bristol merchants until 1698. The indentured white servant system, operated in Bristol during the seventeenth century, were used by merchants to meet demand for labour in Britain’s new colonies until the Bristol merchants were legally able to compete in the lucrative transatlantic trade. This pamphlet reveals the extent of this ‘white slavery’ and its links to Bristol.

 

Additional information

Weight 0.090000 kg