Dr. Spaulding reads aloud Howard French's text, Born in Blackness. Chapter 13, "Becoming Creole", posits how, as Ira Berlin calls them, the "charter generation", is a unique mixing of people that transformed as much as was transformed by the Circum-Atlantic.  Also, he highlights at the end, that even the racial mixing, however, still left many Blacks in a marginal spaces, as their color became a clear marker that stood in the way of complete cultural assimilation.