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I think it should be clear by now that
like Virginia, all

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the mainland colonies were put on a very
distinctive path of development.

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Certainly, in comparison to the core areas
of the Americas.

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There were slaves in Virginia from very
early

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on, 1619, but the numbers were very small.

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Less than 5% of the population in the
first years.

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Labor, and unfreedom, were as much the
condition

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of Englishmen and women, as of Africans in
this early period.

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This was clearly not a slave society.

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In fact, in the mid-17th century, as the
historian Edmund Morgan has put it.

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You can see Virginians moving in pursuit
of profit to a system of labor that

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treated men as things.
In Virginia and in the mainland colonies

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it was white men

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and women who

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were treated

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as things.