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Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America

Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America

Grubb, Farley
Pfaelzer de Ortiz, Anne
Klepp, Susan E.

Paperback

Series: Max Kade Research Institute

Biographies GeneralImmigration & RefugeesRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0271028823
ISBN13: 9780271028828
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Sep 15 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With few options in Germany, each had been recruited by the labor contractors known popularly as soulsellers--men who traded in human cargo. On arrival in America they were sold to different masters, and, years later, each wrote a memoir of his experiences. These two autobiographies are valuable historical records of immigrant attitudes, perceptions, and goals. Despite their shared voyage to America and similar condition as servants, their backgrounds and personalities differed. Their divergent interpretations of their experiences provide rich firsthand insights into the transatlantic migration process, work and opportunity in colonial America, and the fates of former bound servants.

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