Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by Stephen Innes, T.H. Breen

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

Stephen Innes, T.H. Breen

160 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Concentrating on the lives of blacks who achieved freedom, this book describes how, against formidable odds, they amassed property, established plantations, acquired dependent labourers, and lived for several generations as free and independent me...

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