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Gibson/Papenfuse Race and the Law in Maryland Image No: 341 Enlarge and print image (29K) << PREVIOUS NEXT >> |
MARYLAND SLAVE POPULATION 43 TABLE III PROFILE OF SLAVES IN CHARLES AND PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTIES, MARYLAND, 1711 TO 1730 1711-1720 1721-1730 Males 0-15 84 185 Females 0-15 78 164 Sex ratio 1.077 1.128 Sex unknown 0-15 20 34 Total 0-15 182 383 Males 16-50 209 287 Females 16-50 120 188 Sex ratio 1.742 1.526 Total 16-50 329 475 Old males 26 53 Old females 21 47 Sex ratio 1.238 1.128 Old sex unknown 3 2 Total old 50 102 Slaves, age, sex unknown 34 14 Total slaves 595 974 ratio 0-15/16-50 .553 .806 ratio 0-15/females 16-50 1.517 2.037 ratio females 0-15 /females 16-50 .733 .963 Assuming that Vi of the children not identified by sex were females. I730.39 In constructing the table, I have followed the procedures used for Table I. Although it shares the earlier table's imprecision at the edges of each age category and should be used with the same caution, it is adequate for my purpose. Table III describes a slight increase in the proportion of children in the years between 1711 and 1720, and a more substantial gain during the decade beginning in 1721. The increase appears even more pronounced when the relatively equal sex ratio among chil- dren is considered. The 17205, these data suggest, marked a watershed for the slave population on Maryland's lower Western Shore.40 30 Charles County Inventories, 1673-1717; 1717-1735; Prince George's County Inventories, BB$i, 1696/7-1720; TB$i, 1720-1729; PD#i, 1729-1740. Lois Green Carr generously supplied the data for Prince George's from 1711 to 1720. 40 In 1724 Hugh Jones noted that slaves "are very prolifick among themselves." Jones, The Present State of Virginia . . . , ed. Richard L. Morton (Chapel Hill, |