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“Myne Owne Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

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Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, “Myne Owne Ground” has challenged readers to rethink much of what’s taken as a right about American race relations.
Throughout the earliest decades of Virginia history, some women and men who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community at the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for members of the family, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community wherein ownership of property was once as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations didn’t live on makes this a critical and urgent work of history.
In a new foreword, Breen and Innes reflect at the origins of this book, setting it into the context of Atlantic and particularly African history.

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