id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-191851	Allen, Theodore W.	Summary of the Argument of "The Invention of the White Race" (Part 1)	2019	33	.pdf	application/pdf	15943	588	56	During my own study of page after page of Virginia county records, reel after reel of microfilm prepared by the Virginia Colonial Records Project, and other seventeenth-century sources, I have found no instance of the official use of the word white as a token of social status before its appearance in a Virginia law passed in 1691, referring to English or other white women. The Accomack and Northampton records have been treated in great detail by other historians, most recently by Timothy H. Breen and Stephen Innes, Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore in the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1980), and by Joseph Douglas Deal, Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore During the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1993).	cache/clogic-191851.pdf	txt/clogic-191851.txt