New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-04

must bear IN mind IN studying the history u
white bond servants that they included IN their
class not only agricultural iaborers artisans and
mechanics. but also organists students Of III.
apothecary's art and schooIuasters
'Enigrants OF this kind came as redeuptonsrs
or free-wtllers 1t was their own choice &c coma
but they are very foolish writes GottIeo Mittsl,
berger (who euigrated TO Pennsylvania as a schocE-
master), to believe that roasted pigeons viii ~
into their mouths n America or PENNSYLVANIA
without working for them Redenptionsrs lsrs
hons with the expectation OF being allowed a
stipulated number Of days IN waich 70 ssttis
themselves to the greatest advantage They We.
assured BY the so-calIed newIanda-a msr.
thieves says AitteIberger. who 1nveigIs peopls %
every rank ard profession soldierS schel-
ars. artists and mechanical. that II tAsy had 70 4
friends it would be easy TOY and persnns wiling 70
defray the expenses OF the Passage this amount to
be repaid speedily from tEfe handsome earrings Of
the victim. The following description OF the sore
Of fate that actually 5efeu them was w-sstsn N
Philadelphia IN 1917:
Seeing the following advertisement IN To
newspapers put "a BY the captain and owners IL
the vessel referred TO. visited the ship. IN cen.
pany with bootmaker OF this city:
THE PASSENGERS
On board the brig Buoona rom Amsterdam and
who are willing 10 engage themselves for limited
sist Of persons OF the Following e ocopaii6Hs h.
sides women and children. viz thirteen farmers
lors. one gardener. three masons. one mill sawyer,
one whitesmith. two shoemakers; three cabinet
Bubona opposite CaIIoWhflI-st in the river Dela-
o oct, 2. OF 10 '" o'Ih < Co. : South "n1F'''
As We assembled the side OF this hulk. most
revolving scene OF want and misery presented T.
self. The eye invOuntarily turned fer some relief
from the horrible picture OF human suffering which
this living seDulchre afforded. Mr.. - inquired
If there were any shoemakers on board The cap
tain advanced: his appearance bespoke his Of1ce;
he IS an American. tall determined and with an
eye that flashes with Algerins cruelty He called
in the Dutch language for shoemakers. and never
I forget the scene which followed The poor
fellows running Up with Unspeakabls de-
light, no doubt anticipating a relief from their
Ioathsome DUNGEON. Some were without
shirts others had this article OF dress. but
I inquired OF several IL they could speak English.
They smiled. and gabbled NO. Ensly. Engly-I
one Engly talk ship Such IS the mercenary
barbarity of the Americans who engaged Ia
this trade that they crammed into OF thoss
vessels five hundred passengers, eighty OF whom
died on the passage. The price for women IS about
SO men $50 boys $50 When they saw az our
departure that we had not purchased, their coun-
tenances fell to that standard OF stupid gloom
which seemed to place them a link below rational
beings. From my heart I execrated the European
cause OF their removal. which IS thus daily com
polling men TO quit the land Of their fathers.
become voluntary eNies in a foreign cline
Next TO the redemptiouers IN order OF appeal |
the sympathy. come the victims of ktdnappers
Besides redemptioners and the victims of KID +
nappers there were among the white slaves regn- |
Iarly ndentured servants and convicts- But thsss
convicts were. in many Instances. far from being
criminals as we understand the term to-day Thers
was that time in England a long list OF s0-caAes
crimes for which capital punishment might De in
fiCted. and many a condemned man had comn-s
ted only some minor offence. Transportation So.
pared favOrably with hanging In the minds or 800
and wild land as a contemporary writer -
IT, IN a vessel of three hundred tons burden. al.
ing seven eight hundred passengers, t9oA ~ =
eight to twelve weeks. a diet Of sharply sal
food and undrinkable water or an epileuI..
contagious disease was liable before the lonsssI
for shore reached 70 produce the same en-
5 the hanging that had been escaped. -.
Far exceeding the CCDviCtS in number were u,
regularly iu1enJuTed servants. who set out -
terms Of contract already drawn UP. BOYS ~
almost much work and their terms were loHs
Moreover. they were easier to get since JhsS " ~
bound out apprentices.
The white slave. unlike the negro, might -
however. II found him very low in the social ss ss
and most OF the indeutured servants In the 1-ss
became poor whites. despiSed even by negroes ssss
day of freedom often delayed until tne SO 80
grew sick. Punishment for insubOrdinatlOu, ~
slight. for increase
term OF servttude. A runaway who had been sssf
day had to serve for it one week; Tor os r
OF absence he served month; Tor Holss.i 10
months. At seasons when there was spp 49, xsS
mand for labor these periods of eXpiaJ9n sl.r
cry lasted at least two hundred years S'
existed IN 1913 and continued until 1871