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Book Review

Canada and the United States

April Lee Hatfield. Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. 312. $39.95.

April Lee Hatfield was intrigued by a simple question: if Peter H. Wood (Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion [1974]) found that Barbados played a fundamental role in bringing slavery to South Carolina, then why did Edmund S. Morgan (American Slavery American Freedom [1975]) not find any substantial external influence in the development of Virginia slavery? Their contrasting interpretations "first made me ask whether intercolonial influences might have shaped Virginia's history, as they did South Carolina's" (p. 230, n. 6). Hatfield answers that Virginia slavery had substantial Barbadian influence. She contends that historians, following Morgan's lead, have overdetermined Bacon's Rebellion, a "local" event, as the causal factor in the formation of racism and slavery in Virginia. Rather slavery and racism developed within the milieu of an intercolonial discourse, especially between Barbados and Virginia. European colonies did not develop in isolation of one another but were part of an ever-changing, widening web of trade and travel in the Atlantic basin. The development of both servitude and slavery in Virginia and Barbados was a departure from English labor relations and "uniquely American" (p. 139).

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