“Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.” WholeFactsClassSouthernNobilityFarmingPeasantsVirginiaAristocracyMerchantsColonyCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:Carl L. Becker
“If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.” IfsKnowsStatesReasonWholeTermWhiteUnitedRaceUnited StatesLateConceptsTricksColonyDescentWhitenessWhite Race Author:Tim Wise