Read Chapter 3 and pay particular attention to the section called “VOICES: A Description of an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation” in Chapter 3. Once all reading is complete, respond to the following:

What does this passage reveal about plantation life in mid-eighteenth-century Virginia and the valuation of slaves to the plantation economy?
How does the description of black people presented here compare to the passage from the South Carolina statute book that begins Chapter 3?