The Thacker Myne Owne Ground Book Report Essay - 1098 Words

Cheyenne Thacker Myne Owne Ground Book Report 9-13-16 Myne Owne Ground by T.H Breen and Stephen Innes was wrote to show people that race and ethnic background was not always a discrepancy in the New world. During the mid-1600s it did not matter what race one was to be a servant, it was based on class and how much money one had. Often merchants would make deals with white or black Englishmen that they would pay for their trip to the New World if the Englishmen would work for them for a servant amount of years in place of their payment. Now it was not always this way, in some cases servants did not get this option of freedom very easily. This book goes on to tell about the challenges of the Free Blacks, white and black Servants, Slaves, and how hard it was to obtain freedom. This book also teaches how much easier it was for a black man to obtain property, freedom, and a family that it would have been after the early 1700s when the slave trade began to really take effect. In chapter one â€Å"Patriarch on Pungoteage Creek† it starts to tell the place that slavery had held in the New world. Slavery was in every county in the New colonies. North American Slavery helped develop the South Atlantic Trading System. In Chapter two â€Å"Race Relations as Status and Process† is when the book starts to get a little more interesting. The only way that we know that Anthony Johnson or any of the other names mentioned in the book were black is because the county clerk put beside their name