Migrants, servants and slaves : unfree labor in Colonial British America / Russell R. Menard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menard, Russell R.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS699.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Labor supply.

History.

United States.

Labor supply--United States--History.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

America.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : portrait ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, USA : Ashgate, 2001.

Contents:

I Transitions to African Slavery in British America, 1630-1730: Barbados, Virginia, and South Carolina (The Indian Historical Review 15, nos. 1-2. New Delhi, 1988-89) 33

II From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland (William and Mary Quarterly 30, no. 1. Williamsburg, VA, 1973) 37

III From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System (Southern Studies 16, no. 4. Natchitoches, LA, 1977) 355

IV The Maryland Slave Population, 1658 to 1730: A Demographic Profile of Blacks in Four Counties (William and Mary Quarterly 32, no. 1. Williamsburg, VA, 1975) 29

V Immigrants and their Increase: The Process of Population Growth in Early Colonial Maryland (Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland, ed. A.C. Land, L.G. Carr and E.C. Papenfuse. Baltimore, MD, 1977) 88

VI Financing the Lowcountry Export Boom: Capital and Growth in Early South Carolina (William and Mary Quarterly 51, no. 4. Williamsburg, VA, 1994) 659

VII The Africanization of the Lowcountry Labor Force, 1670-1730 (Race and Family in the Colonial South, ed. W.D. Jordan and S.L. Skemp. Jackson, MS, 1987) 81

VIII Slave Demography in the Lowcountry, 1670-1740: From Frontier Society to Plantation Regime (South Carolina Historical Magazine 96. Charleston, SC, 1995) 280

IX British Migration to the Chesapeake Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (Colonial Chesapeake Society, ed. L.G. Carr, P.D. Morgan and J.B. Russo. Chapel Hill, NC, 1988) 99

X Migration, Ethnicity, and the Rise of an Atlantic Economy: The Re-Peopling of British America, 1600-1790 (A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930, ed. R.J. Vecoli and S.M. Sinke. Urbana/Chicago, 1991) 58

XI Slavery, Economic Growth, and Revolutionary Ideology in the South Carolina Lowcountry (The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763-1790, ed. R. Hoffman, J.J. McCusker, R.R. Menard and P.J. Albert. Charlottesville, VA, 1988) 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860788385

OCLC:

45339150