The Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of the American Indians in the Old South (J. Leitch Wright, Jr., The Free Press, 1981) – excerpt: The Original Southerners. True knowledge of the intricate workings of the pre-contact southern Indian…
Myne Own Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 (T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes, Oxford Press, 1980). Conventional historical analysis of the rise of racism and slavery in the South paints a very broad brush of these as…
American Slavery – American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (Edmund S. Morgan, W.W. Norton & Company, 1975). Author and historian Edmund S. Morgan takes a very thorough and chronological approach to the growth of slavery as an institution starting…