Patterns of Slaveholding in Colonial Pennsylvania: Chester and Lancaster Counties 1729-1758

Tully, Alan

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“…This evidence allows for separating immigrant from nonimmigrant servants and for estimating the total regional distribution of immigrant servants both by nationality and family status. 2 This is something that previous studies could not accomplish because they relied on tax and probate records, usually for small specific localities, which do not record these distinctions, e.g., see Nash (1973); Salinger (1981); Salinger (1983);and Tully (1967). Table 1 presents the geographic distribution of immigrant servants for the three samples combined.…”

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Immigrant Servant Labor: Their Occupational and Geographic Distribution in the Late Eighteenth- Century Mid-Atlantic Economy

Grubb¹

1985

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Contract Labor played a critical role both in financing European trans-Atlantic migration and in providing a hirable labor force to work the estates of the New World. During the seventeenth century at least three-quarters of the Chesapeake colonists arrived under some form of short term contract (Walsh, 1977: 111). By the American Revolution, a majority of English, German, and southern Irish emigrants still used servant contracts to finance their migration to Pennsylvania (Grubb, 1985). For the year 1773, 61% of the 387 southern Irish immigrants, 18% of the 1,420 Ulster immigrants, 25% of the 382 Scotch immigrants, and 52% of the 174 English immigrants to Pennsylvania entered servitude. For the years 1771–1773, out of 747 German adult male immigrants to Pennsylvania 58% entered servitude. For 1785–1804, 45% of the 7,837 German immigrants to Pennsylvania entered servitude.

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