![]() Servitude was a defining characteristic of settler society in the Chesapeake. The peak period of English emigration occurred within a single generation, from 1630 to 1660, but the rapid growth of the tobacco industry created a continual demand for cheap labor in Virginia and Maryland. Most ended up in colonies that produced the major staples of colonial trade, tobacco and sugar: approximately 210,000 went to the Caribbean, 130,000 to the Chesapeake (Virginia and Maryland), 24,000 to the Middle Colonies, and 21,000 to New England.įigure 1: Destinations and Annual Totals of Servants Emigrating from Bristol to America, 1654-1680. ![]() During the seventeenth century, emergent societies of the English Atlantic were transformed by large-scale migrations of hundreds of thousands of white settlers. Copyright © 1994 by the University of North Carolina Press. ![]() ![]() (Images From Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake by James Horn. Jamestown Interpretive Essays - Leaving England: The Social Background of Indentured Servants in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown Interpretive Essays Leaving England: The Social Background of Indentured Servants in the Seventeenth Century ![]()
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