by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 22, 2018 | Braceros, Chinese railroad workers, Dawes Act, indentured servants, Indian boarding schools, Indian Relocation, picture brides, slave markets, slavery, Termination
One of the earliest stories of white-Indian interaction in North America is that of Squanto, a Patuxet Indian taken captive by English explorer Thomas Hunt in 1614 and sold as a slave in Spain. Tisquantum—his real name—escaped and made his way back to Cape Cod through...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 18, 2014 | fur trade, homestead act, indentured servants, Luis Urrea, pre-emption act, railroads, refugees
At the Fishtrap Gathering this weekend, writer Luis Alberto Urrea talked about the border. He’d written a non-fiction book, The Devil’s Highway, about 26 from Vera Cruz who crossed the border in 2001—twelve made it, and fourteen died in the trying. The book was a...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 6, 2013 | German immigrants, indentured servants, jamestown, little germany, Manifest Destiny, Mertis, New France
1738 Indenture contract signed with an X I was looking for information on Scottish indentured workers in America—remembering something from Charles Mann’s book, 1491, about indentured Scotsmen dying of malaria on southern plantations so quickly that owners...
