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Bernard Bailyn’s Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1986, ISBN 0-394-55392-6) limns major themes of European migration to colonial British North America. His book barely mentions the forced migration of African slaves, the existence of Amerindians, and non-migratory peopling patterns. A quick paraphrase of Bailyn’s four propositions summarizes his book’s contribution to our historical knowledge of colonial British North America. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that The Peopling of British North America be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that The Peopling of British North America be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about the continent. ... This article is about non-human migration. ... By 1763, British North America included 19 British colonies and territories on the continent of North America. ... Slavery is any of a number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other clear forms of coercion. ... A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ...

Proposition One: The peopling of British North America was an outgrowth of European domestic mobility, an extension and expansion of European migration and population patterns (20).

Proposition Two: No uniform settlement pattern of British North America exists. The peopling of British North American is non-static and characterized by constant motion and differentiation (49-50)

Proposition Three: Land speculation and population recruitment were "major stimuli" to the peopling of British North America. Land speculation and population recruitment created new and different relationships between landowners, renters, and workers in British North American than the ones previously known in Europe (60).

Proposition Four: American culture is best understood as a strange mix of savagery and civilization, on the far western periphery of European culture. Bailyn calls this far western periphery a "marchland" (112).

Numbers in parenthesis refer to page numbers in Peopling of British North America.