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Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1959 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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In “Myne Owne Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern shore, historians T.H.Breen and Stephen Innes, concentrate on the lives of blacks who achieved freedom. This book describes how against formidable likelihood, they gained property, established plantations, acquired dependant laborers, and lived for several generations as free and independent members of Virginia society. They describe three kind of relationships: patron-client relations; family relations and relations of free blacks with white indentured servants, …showed first 75 words of 1959 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1959 total…consisted mainly of white men with a European heritage. The African was of a different color, had a different language, a different religion, and had an entirely different worldview. But perhaps the most striking contrast was that, while the European came voluntarily in search of greater individual opportunity, the African came in chains. Because the European was the master and thereby the superior in the relationship, he assumed that his heritage was also superior.
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