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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
each plantation was a little world within itself, and legislation vainly attempted the creation of towns by statute. Like Virginia, its laborers were in part indented servants, whose term of service was limited by persevering legislation; Bacon, 1661, c. x.; 1662, c. VI. in part negro slaves, who were employed in the colony from an early period, and whose importation was favored both by English cupidity and by provincial statutes. Ibid. 1671, c. ii.; confirmed 1672, c. ii.; renewed Oct. 1692, c. LII. As in Virginia, the appointing power to nearly every office in the counties as well as in the province, was not with the people; and the judiciary was placed beyond their control. Macculloch's Maryland, 155, &c As in Virginia, the party of the proprietary, which possessed the government, was animated by a jealous regard for prerogative, and by the royalist principles, which derive the sanction of authority from the will of Heaven. As in Virginia, the taxes levied by the county