sentences:  In his book "Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware", author Paul Heinegg said, "When they arrived in Virginia, Africans joined a society which was divided between master and white servant - a society with such contempt for white servants that masters were not punished for beating them to death in 1624.They joined the same households with white servants - working, eating, sleeping, getting drunk, and running away together.