Professors Breen and Innes in their paper suggest that the Eastern Shore was different in one significant respect. Free and strong black community developed during the middle decades of the seventeenth century. Often purchasing their freedom, only a few West India slaves came to the area, where they acculturated rapidly. When they gained their freedom, the Eastern Shore black residents from time to time behaved as their white neighbors. Basically, after they made money in order to buy their folks from “owners”, they leased land and tried to accumulate certain capital to purchase land.
According to Breen and Innes the tragic fate of Virginia's black population was not finally sealed until the end of seventeenth Century. As they stated: Not
According to Breen and Innes the tragic fate of Virginia's black population was not finally sealed until the end of seventeenth Century. As they stated: Not