Lancaster, R. Kent. 1999. "Almost Chattel: The Lives of Indentured Servants At Hampton-Northhampton, Baltimore County." Marvland Historical Magazine. 94 (3): 341-362. Compares the lives of white indentured servants and black slaves. Starke, Barbara M. (September-October, 1978) "A Mini View of the Microenviroment of Slaves and Free Blacks Living in the Virginia and Maryland Areas from the 17th Through The 19th Centuries." Negro History Bulletin 41, 878-880. Highlights the living conditions of slaves and free blacks in Maryland and Virginia from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Wright, James. 1921. The Free Negro in Maryland: 1634- 1860. New York. Discussion on why Maryland had a large free black population when Maryland society had no comfortable place for it.