Subject: Indentured servants

Issue of Freeman's Journal, or, the North-American Intelligencer, a newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 11, 1782. The newspaper includes an advertisement by Salomon and a notice regarding two runaway indentured servants owned by Jacob Myers of Lancaster.

Indenture servant contract dated March 2, 1712, between John Gillard of Ireland and Herman Ball and Hugh Paine & Co. Gillard bound himself to serve as an indentured servant in Philadelphia for four years. The contract included the right for Ball and Paine & Co. to assign Gillard's service. Research suggests a John Gillard was held in the Philadelphia jail in 1771, leading to legislation for his release.

This 24-page pamphlet, published in Amsterdam in 1863, contains two ordinances related to the transition from slavery to a system of indentured servitude in Suriname following the abolition of slavery in 1863. The first ordinance addresses the control of the introduction of free laborers. The second ordinance details the government's offer of premiums to incentivize the recruitment of these laborers. While printed in Amsterdam, the text is in English. This pamphlet provides valuable insight into the complex socio-economic dynamics of post-emancipation Suriname.