Dec 9th, 2014: Witley Park

[footfootfoot]

@ Dana,

You can never just say he looks nice, can you?

[DanaC]

Hahahahahahahahahah.

Funny fucker.




[eta] should have said in last post: that depended on what kind of service they were indentured to. At various times and under various circumstances, some would end up in a harsh penal colony environment - they had a very difficult time.

Also: fun[ish] fact: a few years ago whilst i was down at the National Archives, they had an exhibition on transportation. I went round it - saw some 19th century transportation orders and ship mainfests. One of the felons was a 12 year old boy - heart breaking.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Working primarily for room, board and necessaries was the norm for huge swathes of working people during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly during the early part of peoples' working lives.

Uh, don't we all?

It was an absolute severence from family and friends.

Yeah, SKYPE just isn't the same.

Dana, you magnificent bastard*, you got me thinking about context.
Some poor peasant with little or no education, hearing rumors, campfire tales, and minstrel's ditties, must have been scary when the best educated really knew little about the world outside Britain. Hell, the scholars were still putting, "Here be Dragons" on the maps.