Socially and economically, it is obvious that Johnson was not treated, by any means, as an oddity in his community. Johnson was not prevented from dealing with his white neighbors, …show more content…
However Virginia’s Eastern Shore was, in Breen’s own concession, not the only locale in Colonial America that lacked inherent racial prejudice. The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (at present-day New York) was home to many free Africans, who purchased land and established families just as did Johnson and his counterparts in Virginia. New Amsterdam also similarly did not recognize race in cases of indentured servitude, as Breen notes it was socially acceptable for a white woman to serve a freed black man