Immigrants were 5:1 male and many of both sexes were kidnapped or otherwise dragged to Virginia against their will. There's a contemporaneous song warning young English maidens of the perils of being abducted to the colony
Generally agree Here it seems plausible as the chattel slavery was the novelty and the cultural clipping from England of established stock (no?)
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usually the two things do not start to recognizably exist simultaneously, there is no denying it
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if author means "the culture of tidewater virginia specifically before slavery, not afterward" then sure
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