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Excerpt from The James Sprunt Historical Publications, Vol. 11: Published Under the Direction of the North Carolina Historical Society The early settlers of the New England Colonies belonged to the great middle class of Old England and came chie y from the towns, while the early colonists of Virginia, purely English, belonging to the upper and middle classes of the mother country came in the main from the rural districts, and brought with them a large body of servants, who were Sprung from the very lowest classes of England. This approach to white slavery in Virginia was abandoned with the introduction of negroes, but the poor whites then occupied a condition of life scarcely preferable to that of the slave. '1 he result was that in Virginia the upper class grasped the reins of government at the start and held them, While in New England, on the contrary, the mass of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."