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This book was thought to have been out-of-print until just recently, when several cases were located in the warehouse. Surry County was created in 1652 from James City and it was the parent county of Sussex.
"The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.
Free blacks in antebellum America lived in a twilight world of oppressive laws and customs designed to suppress their mobility and their integration into civil society. Free blacks were free only to the extent of white tolerance in their community or town. They were at the mercy of the lowest members of the dominant race who could punish them on a whim. They were, in the words of a 19th century European traveler to America, "masterless slaves." Nonetheless, many successful and even prominent blacks emerged from the mire of oppressive laws and general public disdain to realize major achievements. Though excluded from the political process, from education, and from most professions they became preachers, teachers, missionaries, contractors, artisans, boat captains, and wealthy entrepreneurs. Members of this twilight social and legal class, which numbered nearly a half million by 1860, made great accomplishments against strong opposition in the first half of the 19th century. The history of America and of American slavery is woefully incomplete without their story.
Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.
This book follows the Carrolls from Ireland to Virginia. On Sir Richard Greenville's fourth voyage in 1587 to the colony of Virginia, he left (Denice) Dennis Carrell and Darbie Glaven on shore to procure the necessary supplies. Other early Carrolls to Virginia John Kerill in 1623/1624 and Christopher Carnoll (Carroll) in 1634/1635. In 1635 Henry Carrell (age 16) disembarked on Virginia's shores as did Elizabeth Carrill in 1638. .
Includes entries for maps and atlases.