Snt Marys Church in
Smiths Hundred in Virginia_. Hall marks on all three pieces bear London
date-letters for 1618-19.

Courtesy Mrs. L. T. Jester and Mrs. P. W. Hiden]

[Illustration: The Glebe House, Charles City County, Virginia

Courtesy Valentine Museum, Richmond]

[Illustration: Glebe House, Gloucester County, Virginia

Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce]

[Illustration: Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia

Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce]

[Illustration: Merchant's Hope Church, Prince George County, Virginia

Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce]

[Illustration: Saint Lukes Church, Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce]

[Illustration: Saint Peters Church, New Kent County, Virginia

Photo by Flournoy, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce]

[Illustration: Robert Hunt Memorial Plaque

Altar-piece. A bronze bas-relief representing the administration of the
first Anglican communion in America, June 21, 1607. George T. Brewster,
sc. Gorham Co., founders.

Courtesy Cook Collection, Valentine Museum]

[Illustration: Robert Hunt Memorial Shrine

Erected by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the
State of Virginia. Presented to the Diocese of Southern Virginia of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, June 15, 1922. It was placed in the
perpetual care of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities.

Courtesy Cook Collection, Valentine Museum and National Park Service]

CHAPTER FIVE

The Coming of the Negro

A new element came early into the life of Virginia, with permanent and
continuous hurt to the welfare of the colony and later to the
Commonwealth; an element to which the colony was compelled to adapt
itself because it did not have the power to eradicate it after men
perceived its danger. It was the element of human slavery.

The first Negro captives were brought into the port of Jamestown in the
year 1619. They were brought by a foreign ship then described as a
"Dutch" ship, but presumably a Portuguese slaver seeking the
enlargement of his market. The Portuguese had developed a market for
Negro slaves in the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean where the
enslaved Indians proved unable to perform the hard work demanded of
them. Unhappily the slavers succeeded in widening their market to
include Virginia and the other English colonies of the American
c