Old Virginia and her neighbours

CONTENTS.ixHow Nicholson removed the capital from St. Mary's to Annapolis1G2, 163Unpopularity of the establishment of the Church of England 163Episcopal parsons . . .164Exemption of Protestant dissenters from civil disabilities . 165Seymour reprimands the Catholic priests .... 166Cruel laws against Catholics 167Crown requisitions ........ 168Benedict Calvert, fourth Lord Baltimore, becomes a Protestantand the palatinate is revived . . . 168, 169Change in the political situation ...... 170Charles Carroll entertains a plan for a migration to the MississippiValley 171How the seeds of revolution were planted in Maryland . . 171End of the palatinate 172, 173CHAPTER XIV.SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION.How the history of tobacco has been connected with the historyof liberty 174Rapid growth of tobacco culture in Virginia . . . 175Legislative attempts to check it 176Need for cheap labour ... .... 176Indentured white servants 177How the notion grew up in England that Virginians weredescended from convicts ; Defoe's novels, a comedy byMrs. Behn, Postlethwayt's Dictionary, and Gentleman'sMagazine 178-180Who were the indentured white servants . . . . 181Redemptioners ......... 182Distribution of convicts 183Prisoners of war ........ 184Summary ...... .... 185Careers of white freedmen 186Representative Virginia families were not descended fromwhite freedmen 187Some of the freedmen became small proprietors . . 187Some became " mean whites ..... " 188, 189Development of negro slavery ; effect of the treaty ofUtrecht 190Anti-slavery sentiment in Virginia 191