In eighteenth-century Chesapeake,race took on greater importance over time,and whites increasingly considered free blacks dangerous and undesirable.

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This statement is consistent with historical scholarship on the Chesapeake region during this time period. As slavery became more entrenched, white planters and society saw free blacks as a threat to their social and economic order, leading to increasing discrimination and marginalization.

In Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake,race Took on Greater Importance Over Time,and Whites