“Proper and Instructive Education”:

Philadelphia, 1-2 November 2002

Program

All sessions will be held in the Terrace Room, 1st Floor, Logan Hall, 
on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
 

3:00-5:00 p.m.: Opening Session and McNeil Center Seminar

“Proper and Instructive Education”: Children Bound to Labor in Early America

Ruth Wallis Herndon and John Murray, University of Toledo

Reflections on the Demand and Supply of Child Labor in Early America

Gloria Main, University of Colorado

5:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception

McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3619 Locust Walk

9:00-9:30 a.m.: Coffee

9:30-11:30 a.m.: Poor Relief

A Better Bargain than Poor Relief: Servant Apprenticeship in Southern New England, 1720-1820

Ruth Wallis Herndon, University of Toledo

To Each According to His Estate: Care of Orphans and Indigent Children in Colonial Maryland

Jean B. Russo, Maryland State Archives
J. Elliott Russo, Independent Scholar

Wooden Legs and Moral Responsibility: 
Apprenticeship and Poor Relief in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1830

Monique Bourque, Swarthmore College“Republican Ideology and Apprenticeship Policy 
in Virginia: A Shift in Social Welfare Policy?”

Republican Ideology and Apprenticeship Policy in Virginia: A Shift in Social Welfare Policy?

Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University

Comment

Susan Klepp, Temple University

1:00-3:00 p.m.: Families

Ties that Bind: Mothers and Children in and out of the Charleston Orphan House

John E. Murray, University of Toledo

Nurturing the Children of New Netherland

Adriana van Zwieten, Biographical Dictionary of Pa. Legislators, Temple University 

Orphans, Bastards, and Free Black Children: North Carolina Apprenticeship, 1715-1860

Karin L. Zipf, East Carolina University

Apprenticeship on the Frontier: Indentured Children in Antebellum Ohio

Mary Patchen, University of Toledo

Comment

Stephanie Grauman Wolf, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

3:30-5:00 p.m.: Labor

Orphans in Montreal: Were They Disadvantaged in the Apprentice Market?

Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto

Orphans in City and Countryside in Nineteenth Century Maryland

T. Stephen Whitman, Mt. St. Mary's College

Literacy and Provisions for Education in Indentures from New Orleans, 1809-1843

Paul Lachance, University of Ottawa

Comment

Farley Grubb, University of Delaware

5:00-7:00 p.m.: Reception