The colony of Roanoke Island, in two years, made improvements whose cost value at the lowest figures was $44,000; more than would have bought the whole island before the war, with all the improvements which the “master class” had put upon it in two hundred years.
Reid highlights the significant improvements made by a colony on Roanoke Island compared to its previous value before the Civil War.
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