1. Slavery in the Chesapeake Region
... one that continuously changed, having to be renegotiated from place to place and time-to-time. The institution of slavery in colonial America, mainly informed by labor struggles, implied a socioeconomic divide between societies with slaves and slave societies. In the former, slaves, multilingual and worldly-wise Atlantic Creoles were marginal to the regions economy, and slavery was one form ... and unique economic niche, and there was relatively easy socializing between the races, free and enslaved, among the laboring classes. In the early 17th century black and white indentured servants ...
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