03721pam 2200685 a 450 991095917140332120240430174443.01-280-84492-2(CKB)2450000000001865(MH)009482491-6(SSID)ssj0000285856(PQKBManifestationID)12070279(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285856(PQKBWorkID)10321156(PQKB)11474781(MiAaPQ)EBC430475(EXLCZ)99245000000000186520040622d2005 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccr"Myne owne ground" race and freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 /T.H. Breen, Stephen Innes25th anniversary ed.New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (xxvi, 142 p. )1 map ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-517538-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-135) and index.Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek -- Race relations as status and process -- Northampton County at mid-century -- The free blacks of the Eastern Shore -- Conclusion : property and the context of freedom.Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the 17th century, these free blacks purchased freedom for family members, amassed property, established plantations, and acquired laborers. T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes reconstruct a community in which ownership of property was as significant as skin color in structuring social relations. Why this model of social interaction in race relations did not survive makes this a critical and urgent work of history. In a new foreword, Breen and Innes reflect on the origins of this book, setting it into the context of Atlantic and particularly African history.African AmericansEastern Shore (Md. and Va.)History17th centuryAfrican AmericansVirginiaHistory17th centuryAfrican AmericansHistory17th centuryEastern Shore (Md. and Va.)African AmericansHistory17th centuryVirginiaUnited States Local HistoryHILCCRegions & Countries - AmericasHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCEastern Shore (Md. and Va.)Race relationsHistory17th centuryVirginiaRace relationsHistory17th centuryHistory.fastAfrican AmericansHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryUnited States Local HistoryRegions & Countries - AmericasHistory & Archaeology975.5/100496073Breen T. H845381Innes Stephen1852298DLCDLCYDXBOOK9910959171403321"Myne owne ground"4447255UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress