Proving that two races were able to live side by side without much conflict, Myne Owne Ground discusses the relationships between the English and African slaves settled in Virginia during the mid to late 1600s. The authors T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes do so by using relatively unpopular sources, and exposing personal stories and experiences from slaves who had the opportunity to work their way up the social ladder. They counter the idea that blacks have always been seen as inferior, and that they were instantly deemed slaves as they entered the New World. Seeing that owning land was one of the most prominent social status determinants during that time, the authors point out that “not until the end of the seventeenth century was there an inexorable hardening of racial lines,” and with the ownership of land especially, anyone, black or white, could be seen as a prominent figure among peers (Breen & Innes, 5).…