The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (eng)

William Moraley

ISBN 10: 0271026766 / ISBN 13: 9780271026763

Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (eng)
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271026766
• ISBN 13: 9780271026763
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new
• Weight: 0.34 kilograms

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Synopsis

First published by Penn State Press in 1992, The Infortunate has become a staple for teachers and students of American history. William Moraley’s firsthand account of bound servitude provides a rare glimpse of life among the lower classes in England and the American colonies during the eighteenth century. In the decade since its original publication, Susan Klepp and Billy Smith have unearthed new information on Moraley’s life, both before his ill-fated venture as an indentured servant from England to the “American Plantations” and after his return to England. This revised edition features this additional information while presenting the autobiography in a new way, offering more explicit emphasis for students and teachers in college, university, and high school about how to read and interpret Moraley’s autobiography.

About the Authors

Susan E. Klepp is Professor of Colonial American History and American Women's History at Temple University. She contributed the essay on Colonial Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth, edited by Randall Miller and William Pencak (Penn State, 2002).

Billy G. Smith is Michael P. Malone Professor of History at Montana State University. He has edited two other Penn State Press books: Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods (1995) and Down and Out in Early America (2004).