Yes, I really did read all these books. 

1) Reproduction of Birch’s Celebrated Historical Views of Philadelphia
 
2) Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia
By Karin Wulf
 
3) The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker 
By Elizabeth Drinker
 
4) The “Lower Sort”: Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800
By Billy G. Smith
 
5) Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment
By Kevin Kenny
 
6) Flow: The Life and Times of the Schuylkill River
By Beth Kephart
 
7) Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800
By Jack D. Marietta
 
8) Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840
By Gary B. Nash
 
9) Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800
By Peter C. Mancall
 
10) M. de Garsault’s 1767 Art of the Shoemaker
I’m including this book because—although not specifically about Philadelphia or Pennsylvania—one of my lead characters is bought by a shoemaker. 
 
11) The Years of the Life of Samuel Lane, 1718-1806
Samuel Lane was a shoemaker who lived in New Hampshire. 
By Gerald E. Brown

I read all these books as research for Freedom Dues. 


1) The Fortunate Transport, or the secret history of the life and adventures of the celebrated Polly Haycock, alias Mrs. B----, the lady of the gold watch. FREE ON GOOGLE BOOKS
By a Creole

2) Without Indentures: Index to White Slave Children in Colonial Records [Maryland and Virginia] 
By Richard Hayes Phillips

3) The Sufferings of William Green, Being a Sorrowful Account, of His Seven Years Transportation, Wherein is Set Forth the Various Hardships He Underwent 
By William Green

4) Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 convicts to Colonial America 
By Anthony Vaver

5) Emigrants in Chains. A Social History of the Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists
By Peter Wilsom Coldham

6) Harlots, Hussies and Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
By Edith M. Ziegler

These are the non-fiction books I read while researching my novel.

1. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America (Jordan and Walsh)
2. To Serve Well and Faithfully: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (Salinger)
3. The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (Moraley)
4. White Servitude in Pennsylvania (Herrick)
5. Colonial Families of Maryland: Bound and Determined to Succeed (Barnes)
6. White Servitude in Maryland, 1634-1820 (McCormac) FREE ON GOOGLE BOOKS
7. Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped (Ekirch)
8. Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America (Whitehead & Buttner)