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Contents: Introduction; Transitions to African slavery in British America, 1630-1730: Barbados, Virginia, and South Carolina; From servant to freeholder: status mobility and property accumulation in 17th-century Maryland; From servants to slaves: the transformation of the Chesapeake labor system; The Maryland slave population, 1658-1730: 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 17th 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; Index.