I second Doug Deal's observations. Readers might also wish to peruse
my article “The Law of Servants and Slaves in Colonial Virginia.”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 99 (1991): 45–63 and
Chapter 6 of the revised edition of The Old Dominion in the
Seventeenth Century.
Warren M. Billings, PhD
Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana 70148
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