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What are the social classes and diversity of the Jamestown region?

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-Gentry: Large landowners, wealthy merchants, and financiers
-Middling: "Middle Class" blacksmithing, silversmithing, printing, and millinery
-Farmers: Small farms with only labor from their falmilies
-Free Blacks: Owned property, worked in wide range of skilled jobs
-Enslaved House Servants: Cooks, laundresses, manservants, blacksmiths, coopers, etc.
-Enslaved Field Hands: Africans worked in the fields from sunup to sundown

explanation: what i found on google.
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