How Does Morgan Characterize Slavery

Morgan has a starting date of 1585 with a tentative closing date of 1776 for his book. However, one could infer that the topic still remains viable today. While primarily set in the Tidewater region of Virginia. The author provides the strength of the ties that England had in the 1600-1700’s into the American experience. He effectively describes England as the mother with her apron strings to her child (America). Morgan outlines the birth and its genealogy of the Virginia Company's plan for the North American mainland, especially that of Virginia. The British imagined an offset to Spanish dominance in the Southern colonies and the Caribbean; thereby tormenting the Spanish.
The construction of the book followed a chronological pattern except the last chapters (approximately 100 pages). Whether it was the author’s intention to create a final narrative regarding slavery and the rise of the upper class of plantation owners by showing the end result of the expansion of the tobacco industry, I disliked it. In my own opinion, the building of racism through slavery and the class structure should have been placed in the book’s timeline. The reader would then see the study development of these issues instead of a summary. Morgan provides a substantial detailing through multiple primary source documents.
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More importantly, it brings forth a concept that is hidden of that of addiction to greed and corruption. This marked the beginnings of a landed versus poor society. The option to expand agriculture to other lucrative markets such as cattle or wheat, failed because of the lucrative nature of tobacco. This tobacco boom fueled the speculation of land values and the anticipated values of future crops. Salaries and services were measured not in shillings but in pounds of