"Master Atkins hath sold me for a L150 sterling like a damnd slave." (1)
(1) Penelope D. Cliff, “The Legal and Social Status of Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia,†M.A. Thesis, Georgia College & State University, 2002, 43, 72, quoting Robert J. Steinfeld, The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 102.