Bekah’s Reviews > The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown > Status Update

p. 101-102 [to refute the Elizabethan Age as The Golden Age]: Elizabeth ordered all the "blackamoors" to be expelled because there were already too many. ..Elizabeth scapegoated Africans for causing crime, inflation, and unemployment, to mask her inability to solve England's staggering economic and social problems. However, it was the white population in 1596, that grew by 400 percent.