Slave and Free on Virginia's Eastern Shore

by Kirk Mariner. The Eastern Shore of Virginia has been home to English-Speaking people for almost four hundred years, and for more than half that time it was legal for some of its residents to own other residents who live on the peninsula with them, to buy and sell, use and abuse them for their own purposes and profit. What was it like to live in that day when human bondage was accepted fact, it's mindset and practices firmly embedded in teh everyday affails of ordinary people?  Slave and Free is solidly researched, a good place to begin the study that no one wants to talk about. It will be found accessible and readable by both the scholar and the general reader; as well as by all who know and love Virginia's Eastern Shore.