Book Reviews -- Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the Seventeenth Century (Studies in African American History and Culture) by J. Douglas Deal

Hughes, Sarah S., The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore During the Seventeenth Century. By J. DOUGLAS DEAL. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. xxii, 452 pp. $96.00

IN 1980, when T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes published "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676, they seemed to tell the whole story of "a brief moment" when free black Virginians almost became a peasantry in Northampton County (p. 5). J. Douglas Deal was the finishing a dissertation at the University of Rochester that, when published thirteen years later, reveals many other fascinating …

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Publication information: Article title: Book Reviews -- Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the Seventeenth Century (Studies in African American History and Culture) by J. Douglas Deal. Contributors: Hughes, Sarah S. - Author. Journal title: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Volume: 102. Issue: 1 Publication date: January 1994. Page number: 106. © Virginia Historical Society Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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