Beschrijving
This exhibit catalog seeks to explore in depth various aspects of the practice of indenting or binding out of orphaned and indigent children. Forced apprenticeship, as the practice is also known, existed from the colonial period through the mid-nineteenth century and was practiced all along the eastern sea board. The article \



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