Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
1987
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume
95
Issue
3
First Page
317
Last Page
338
Date of Submission
July 2014
Abstract
Free black ownership of slaves, which did exist in Virginia, shows that opportunity of a kind was open to some free people of color, but as the slave society of Virginia grew older and larger, it was an increasingly limited opportunity. When ownership of bondspeople by free people of color is placed into the context of the white supremacist and pro slavery laws and society of Virginia, however, it stands out as all the more remarkable as well as anomalous.
Includes photographs of the excavated the site of Archibald Batte's store in Bermuda Hundred, by Daniel Mouer, VCU Archaeology Department.
Rights
Copyright © 1987 Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Comments
Presented with permission of the Virginia Historical Society.