The 13 colonies can be divided into three distinct ... This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In the American colonies, governing structures varied ...

Maryland, 1664: The first colonial "anti-amalgamation" law is enacted (amalgamation referred to "race-mixing"). Other colonies soon followed Maryland's example. A 1691 Virginia law declared that ...

Her 1972 dissertation on personal wealth in the Thirteen Colonies was the basis of her first book ... Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650–1720. Princeton University Press. ISBN ...