JSTOR 2123771 – via JSTOR. (Registration required (help)). ...[the] vast majority [of economic historians and economists] accept the view that indentured servitude was an economic arrangement designed to iron out imperfections in the capital market. ↑ James Davie Butler, "British Convicts Shipped to American Colonies," American Historical Review 2 (October 1896): 12–33; Thomas Keneally, The Commonwealth of Thieves, Random House Publishing, Sydney, 2005. ↑ J.A. Leo Lemay, Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (1972) p 229. ↑ Elaine G. Breslaw (2008).