The Negroes are not only encreased by fresh supplies from Africa and the West India Islands, but also are very prolific among themselves; and they that are born here talk good English and affect our Language, Habits and Customs....

Their work or Chimerical (hard Slavery) is not very laborious; their greatest Hardship consisting in that they and their Posterity are not at their own Liberty or Disposal, but are the Property of their Owners; and when they are free they know not how to provide so well for themselves generally; neither did they live so plentifully nor (many of them) so easily in their own Country where they are made Slaves to one another, or taken Captive by their Ennemies."* * It is an English clergyman, the Reverend Hugh Jones, who is writing ("The Present State of Virginia") in the year 1724.

He writes and never sees that, though every amelioration be true, yet there is here old Inequity.
The white Virginians lived both after the fashion of England and after fashions made by their New World environment.

They are said to have been in general a handsome folk, tall, well-formed, and with a ready and courteous manner.

They were great lovers of riding, and of all country life, and few folk in the world might overpass them in hospitality.