The compelling article by Jim C. evokes, in my mind, the images of Louis L’Amour’s depictions of early American settlers and Robert E. Howard’s fantasy frontiersmen. It also reminded me what a pivotal change in American frontier life came about as free Scotts began immigrating to the Plantations—among them Andrew Jackson’s parents—and the French agitation of tribes previously in the English pocket resulted in white servants from Philadelphia to points north being armed to fight the Indians, in the Seven Years War, which began a few years early in America. Below is the segment of the unfinished chronology containing the battle entry from America in Chains, the companion volume to Stillbirth of a Nation.

1740?: Pennsylvania. Sally Brant, owned by Henry and Elizabeth Drinker, was forcibly separated from her baby by her Quaker owners. Elizabeth Drinker noted in her diary that the subsequent death of the baby was for the best.

1740: Aberdeen, Scotland, kidnapping of child slaves becomes a multi-trade industry.

1741: Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of William Jamieson is kidnapped and sold.

1741: Carolina, planters arm black militia against white slave uprising.

1741: New York Conspiracy, black slaves conspire with white servants

1742: Carolina, certificates for military service were presented to black militia men.

1743?: Carolina, 80% of white slaves died in their first year.

1743: Lord Annesley publishes his memoir, detailing his kidnapping and 13-year indenture in the Plantations.

1744: Aberdeen, Scotland, Peter Williamson is kidnapped and shipped to Philadelphia, where he is sold for 16 pounds sterling.

1744: Virginia. It was legislated that escaped white slaves be whipped through the Parrish. Dennis Mahoon and other “enticers” who were found guilty of persuading other servants to escape received thirty to forty lashes. The fingers of servants were burned to elicit confessions. Enticers were also jailed for assisting runaways. Masters of ships were put under “severe penalty” for transporting runaways. Freedom papers were required to be carried by free whites at all times.

1745: Aberdeen Scotland, James Ingram, kidnapped and bound over to the plantations to be sold.

1746: Scotland, The Battle of Culloden, in which Scottish rebels are defeated, makes Scottish troops and settlers available for frontier settlement and military operations in America.

1748: Virginia, The House of Burgesses upholds the Act of 1705 and uses it to conscript soldiers for the militia.

1750: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fisher Island at the mouth of the Schuylkill River was established as a quarantine base, where sick child slaves were deposited.

1753: Scotland, child slave trade dwindles