Contents

• Transitions to African slavery in British America, 1630- 1730 : Barbados, Virginia, and South Carolina
• From servant to freeholder : status mobility and property accumulation in seventeenth-century Maryland
• From servants to slaves : the transformation of the Chesapeake labor system
• The Maryland slave population, 1658 to 1730 : a demographic profile of blacks in four counties
• Immigrants and their increase : the process of population growth in early colonial Maryland
• Financing the lowcountry export boom : capital and growth in early South Carolina
• The Africanization of the lowcountry labor force, 1670-1730
• Slave demography in the lowcountry, 1670-1740 : from frontier society to plantation regime
• British migration to the Chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century
• Migration, ethnicity, and the rise of an Atlantic economy : the re-peopling of British America, 1600-1790
• Slavery, economic growth, and revolutionary ideology in the South Carolina lowcountry