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Indentured servants "when they are free, may work Day-Labour. Or else rent a small Plantation for a Trifle almost. Or else turn Oversees, if they are expert, industrious, and careful. Or follow their Trade, if they have been brought up to any; especially Smiths, Carpenters, Taylors, Sawyers, Coopers, Bricklayers, &c."
-- Hugh Jones, The Present State of Virginia (London, 1624) |