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A 3 page paper which examines the similar themes presented in Breen and
Innes’ “Myne Owne Ground” and Edmund S. Morgan’s “American Slavery, American
Freedom.” No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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to think of the free African Americans who were in the very early times, African Americans who were often free, or were only indentured slaves like many Europeans who chose
such a temporary existence in order to gain passage to the United States. Two works that discuss the history of the African American in the United States, showing the evolution
of these predominantly free people, are "Myne Owne Ground" by Breen and Innes and "American Slavery, American Freedom." The following paper briefly examines the two individually and then discusses the
common theme, or thread, possessed in the two. Myne Owne Ground Breen and Innes work discusses, first, the early African Americans who were in Virginia and were often
Creoles. They focus a great deal on two different families, the Johnsons and the Drugguses. These families managed to fight the same difficult conditions as all the other early citizens
and even began to become somewhat wealthy, and certainly wealthy enough to buy their freedom. These families, and others like them established their own plantations and even owned slaves and
purchased white indentured servants. Mixed marriages were even allowed and accepted for the most part. The authors show that slowly things began to change as the slave trade truly
took off and many different African people started coming into the region. Many slowly began to leave for less hostile states, such as Maryland, though many were taken as slaves
because they could not prove their own freed state. Thus, in this work we see how conditions were quite different before the period of time we truly connect with slavery.
These blacks were taken as slaves, though they and their ancestors had been free for some time, and others merely left the area. These people were engulfed by the African
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