Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia"," is important to the study of the origins of slavery as the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. ... As an ambitious planter, Beverley deplored the "heavy impositions "2 put upon colonists by the English crown and used outspoken Americanism to celebrate Virginia's quality of governance in rebuke. ... Verse 41 describes servitude as temporary, after which his whole family shall be free. ...

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