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SUMMARY:Selling Souls: Trafficking German Migrants\, Europe and America\, 
 1648-1780 - Dr William O'Reilly\, Faculty of History University of Cambrid
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CONTACT:Di Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:*'Selling Souls' investigates the history of seventeenth and e
 ighteenth-century German emigration to North America and Central and Easte
 rn Europe through the actions of Seelenverkäufer\, the ‘soul-selling’
  traffickers who recruited and escorted migrants and who bridged divides i
 n geography\, in literacy and illiteracy\, in economic security and insecu
 rity\, in freedom and servitude.*\n\nAs the fashion for emigration grew in
  Europe after the great depopulation and general upheavals of the Thirty Y
 ears’ War\, so did the proclivity of recruiters. It was virtually imposs
 ible in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe to contemplate emigratio
 n without coming under the influence of an agent or advertiser. They were 
 scoundrels and saviours in differing measure and without their actions the
  entire process of early-modern migration would have been inconceivable. A
 s such\, they laid the groundwork for subsequent mass migration in the nin
 eteenth and twentieth centuries.\n\nSelling Souls considers the role of co
 lonist recruiters in the creation of a complex network of communication th
 at encompassed an expansive Atlantic World\, from Pennsylvania to Transylv
 ania. Without the actions of migrant recruiters\, informal webs of contact
  and communication could not have been maintained among migrants and\, by 
 extension\, further migration might not have taken place.
LOCATION:B4 Institute of Criminology\, Sidgwick Site 
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