![]() ![]() ![]() For the slaves themselves, their condition required a far more complicated negotiation than the simple, docile subservience that is a staple of the Hollywood version of those times. Virginia’s economy and political culture were in constant turmoil as the dominant markets for its main export crops declined and the lure of free land in the unsettled west drew away much of the white working class.īut without doubt the darkest cloud that hung over all Virginians, black and white, was the seemingly insoluble dilemma posed by slavery. Two devastating wars with Great Britain raged through the region there were sectional differences with New England that regularly threatened to break up the fragile alliance of Colonies and indeed at one point it looked as if the newborn national experiment might fail. The book nicely walks the reader through personal stories of slaves and planters as individuals and paints a broader picture of the great events that kept Virginia in chaos for six decades. ![]()
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