...venue. Its soil, especially in the low country, was cultivated by negro slaves, so that the laborers in the field could not furnish recruits for an army. Except a little powder in a magazine near Williamsburg , it was destitute of warlike stores; and it had no military defences. Of all the colonies it was the most open to attack; the magnificent bay of the Chesapeake and the deep water of the James, the ...