Still speaking of books, my book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color is now available at Barnes & Noble, Powells Books, and on Amazon.com. For a list of retailers follow this link: http://www.aaabooksearch.com/Price/1411603338. Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, chronicles the lives of several families labled, fpc, or Free Persons of Color. The Chronicles begin in 1950's Pennsylvania, and work backward to Colonial Virginia. One of the chronicles is of the Bowden family, who were Mulatto Indentured Servants to George Washingtons family. The book is 292 pages, African American History, Non Fiction, and contains appendix, bibliography, endnotes and index. Another interesting aspect is the DNA test that I took in 2003, and the surprising results. Anita -- John Maass <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Speaking of a new book on Va., in Nov LSU Press will release "Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia," by Warren M. Billings [ISBN 0-8071-3012-5 ]. The publisher includes this info on its website: Sir William Berkeley (1605–1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat, Berkeley won appointment as governor of Virginia in 1641 after a decade in the court of King Charles I. Between his arrival in Jamestown the following year and his death, Berkeley became Virginia’s leading politician and planter, indelibly stamping his ambitions, accomplishments, and, ultimately, his failures upon the colony. In a masterly biography, Warren M. Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley’s life, revealing the extent to which Berkeley shaped early Virginia and linking his career to the wider context of seventeenth-century Anglo-American history. Under Berkeley’s rule, Virginia increased trade with markets in North America, the West Indies, and Holland. Berkeley’s plantation, Green Spring, served as a model for Virginia’s planter aristocracy, and his creation of the General Assembly helped establish the origins of American political self-rule. But his increasingly questionable policies also precipitated Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, which prompted tighter control of Virginia from London and Berkeley’s return to England in disgrace. Despite his central role in the development of Virginia, Berkeley has been as misunderstood by historians as he was by his contemporaries, his motives and character a source of contention for three centuries. Deeply informed and engagingly told, this biography offers the meticulous attention its remarkable subject has long deserved. http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/catalog/Fall2004/books/Billings_Berkeley.html John Maass Department of History The Ohio State University 106 Dulles Hall 230 W 17th Avenue Columbus OH 43210 Ph: 614-292-4909 Fax: 614-292-2282 http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/maass2/ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ________________________________________________________________ Get your name as your email address. Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today! To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html