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Faggins, Barbara. "Africans and Indians: An Afrocentric Analysis of Contacts Between Africans and Indians in Colonial Virginia," Temple University, February 2002.
This study traced relations between Africans and Indians and reported what developed from that unique and tragic bonding. Both groups were economic pillars of strength and contributors to the growth, stability and cultural advancement of colonial Virginia. African life in Southside Virginia has been ignored by early European writers, explorers, merchants, historians, and traders who proved to be prejudiced and motivated by greed. They took a hierarchical perspective in their public opinions and personal epistles. White writers of American history were negative, selective and damaging about Africans. This dissertation asks, “Who were the Africans? Under what circumstance did they come to America? Were they free people? How did they meet the original landowners? Where did they meet the Indians? What did Africans and Indians say to each other?”
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