“A Person Like Me, Oppress’d By Dame Fortune, Need Not Care Where He Goes”: The “Infortunate” William Moraley Tries His Luck in America, 1729
William Moraley tells the collective tale of an indentured servant of the early 1700’s as he was only thirty years old when the death of his father, a journeyman clockmaker led to him being imprisoned as he had low resources and was arrested for debt. Moraley would later service himself for five years as servant in the British North American colonies. William Moraley, The Infortunate: or, the Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley. Was written by Himself with the thought of telling his unfortunate tale that had occurred in his own personal life. William Morosely was an example of someone in search of more when his father died in 1725 as his family wasn’t considered wealth although he and his mother did inherent his fathers will. Unfortunately his mother would remarry an aggressive husband that would threaten William’s mother. The death of Williams’s father and his mother …show more content…
William does this all while showing the state of the world at the point and what was heavy valued to society and what wasn’t just by sharing a summary of what occurred previously in his days before agreeing to working into indentured servitude. William was able to accomplish this while by most importantly sharing his view previously before working as an indentured servant and how he was convinced to agreeing to the lifestyle and what people in his area thought of indentured servitude and the possibility of being in another county unable to receive the benefits of living near friends and family and to help you remain emotionally stable as William felt he need not only being sent away from his home but the loss of his
William Moraley tells the collective tale of an indentured servant of the early 1700’s as he was only thirty years old when the death of his father, a journeyman clockmaker led to him being imprisoned as he had low resources and was arrested for debt. Moraley would later service himself for five years as servant in the British North American colonies. William Moraley, The Infortunate: or, the Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley. Was written by Himself with the thought of telling his unfortunate tale that had occurred in his own personal life. William Morosely was an example of someone in search of more when his father died in 1725 as his family wasn’t considered wealth although he and his mother did inherent his fathers will. Unfortunately his mother would remarry an aggressive husband that would threaten William’s mother. The death of Williams’s father and his mother …show more content…
William does this all while showing the state of the world at the point and what was heavy valued to society and what wasn’t just by sharing a summary of what occurred previously in his days before agreeing to working into indentured servitude. William was able to accomplish this while by most importantly sharing his view previously before working as an indentured servant and how he was convinced to agreeing to the lifestyle and what people in his area thought of indentured servitude and the possibility of being in another county unable to receive the benefits of living near friends and family and to help you remain emotionally stable as William felt he need not only being sent away from his home but the loss of his