An Available Audio Book

In Cooperation with Spoken Realms

WHITE SERVITUDE IN MARYLAND 1634-1820. Johns Hopkins Press 1904.

by EUGENE IRVING McCORMAC

Narrated by Joseph Tabler.

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. The Negro Population

II. The Early Land System in Maryland

III. Number and Economic Importance

IV. Indenture and "Custom of the Country"

V. Fugitive Servants

VI. Status of Servants and Freedmen

VII. Servant Militia

VIII. Convicts

Conclusion

Eugene Irving McCormac, Professor of American History, Emeritus (1872-1943) (University of California: In Memoriam)

Professor McCormac's first publication was White Servitude in Maryland, 1634-1820 (1904), an important investigation which has not been superseded. He followed this with an original and illuminating demonstration of Colonial Opposition to Imperial Authority during the French and Indian War (1911). By a curious coincidence, this investigation appeared at a moment when the State Senate was involved in discussion of "unpatriotic" teaching in the schools, and was heedlessly taken as an example of "false and disloyal history." McCormac's view was simply that "the Revolution began [not with the Stamp Act], but as soon as the Pilgrims landed in America," and later investigators have confirmed his position. (University of California, CDL California Digital Library)

**All historians have some bias or slant. And of course, their works were written in a different time than our own. More can be learned about this author at cdlib.org.

Audio cover picture - Detail showing convicts consisting of lords, esquires, and attorneys, in chains, boarding a ship, for transport from England to Georgia, under the reign of King George III. 1770 Library of Congress, Public Domain.

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Note - This book is 'read as written'. It was originally published in 1904. It is in the public domain.