| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660–1740. By Anthony S. Parent Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xvi, 291 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2813-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5486-7.)

The arresting claim of Anthony S. Parent Jr.'s Foul Means is that racial slavery came to the Old Dominion not, in Winthrop D. Jordan's term, as an unthinking decision, in response to market forces, but rather at the behest of a small, powerful planter class. America's racial dilemma, Parent contends, can be traced to a tiny group of "great planters" (p. 2 and passim). This argument is agency with a vengeance: large planters acted out of their own class interests to foist slavery onto North America's most important colony.

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