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Myne Owne Ground - Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 (Paperback, 25th Revised edition)
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Myne Owne Ground - Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 (Paperback, 25th Revised edition)
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Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne
Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for
granted about American race relations.
During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and
women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and
formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own
with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free
blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property,
established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and
Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of
property was as significant as skin color in structuring social
relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations
did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
In a new foreword, Breen and Innes reflect on the origins of this
book, setting it into the context of Atlantic and particularly
African history.
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