The intermediary role that creoles played in the translation of one culture to another is crucial to the growth of the African slave trade in the Chesapeake. ... Through a rather impartial social order, slaves filled no vital and unique economic niche, and there was relatively easy socializing between the races, free and enslaved, among the laboring classes. ... During this time, due to a labor shortage, the slave trade intensified as Europeans moved deeper and deeper into Africa. ... "The trend was steadily moving in the direction of hereditary slave status for all blacks and free status...

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