FIGURE 3.2 Indentured Servants and Slaves in Six Maryland Counties, 1662–1717 This chart illustrates a dramatic shift in the Chesapeake labor force between 1662 and 1717. Although based on a study of estate inventories from six Maryland counties, the trend shown here represents a larger transition in Chesapeake households and farms from the use of white indentured servants to black slaves.
Based on Gloria L. Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), p. 26.