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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464326703321

Autore

Kulikoff Allan

Titolo

Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / / Allan Kulikoff ; design by Laura Dunne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

0-8078-3922-1

1-4696-0122-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

306/.09755/18

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - History

Tobacco industry - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - History

Plantation life - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - History

Slavery - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) - History

Electronic books.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Economic conditions

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Making of a Slave Society; Sources and Methods; Part I: The Political Economy of Tobacco; 1. From Outpost to Slave Society, 1620-1700; From England to the Chesapeake; The Age of the Small Planter; The Great Transformation: From Servants to Slaves; The Legacy of the Seventeenth Century; 2. Land and Labor in the Household Economy, 1680-1800; Tobacco, Land, and Household Formation; Demographic Determinants of Household Formation; Land and Labor; Expansion and Its Disruption; 3. The Troubles with Tobacco, 1700-1750

The Tobacco Economy, 1700-1748Opportunity in a Tidewater County; The Chesapeake Frontier, 1700-1740; Plantation Management in



Tidewater, 1700-1750; The Political Economy of Tobacco Regulation; The Legacy of Depression; 4. The Perils of Prosperity, 1740-1800; Prosperity and Development on the Tobacco Coast; Credit and Economic Development; The Political Economy of Debt; The Decline of Opportunity in Tidewater; The Peopling of Piedmont Virginia; The Virginia Southside: The Best Poor Man's Country?; The Chesapeake Frontier Disappears, 1780-1800; Part II: White Society

5. The Origins of Domestic Patriarchy among White FamiliesThe Demographic Basis of Domestic Patriarchy; Husbands and Wives in the Domestic Economy; The Family Life Cycle in the Domestic Economy, 1720-1800; Morality, Virtue, and the Family Economy; Domestic Patriarchy within Chesapeake Society; 6. From Neighborhood to Kin Group: The Development of a Clan System; Neighborhood Communities on the Tobacco Coast; Manly Competition, Female Cooperation; The Parish Community; Circles within Circles: Kinship in the Colonial Chesapeake; Kinship and Class in the Chesapeake

7. The Rise of the Chesapeake GentryThe Making of the Gentry Class; The Rule of Gentlemen; The Crisis of the Gentry Class; The Legacy of the Revolution; Part III: Black Society; 8. From Africa to the Chesapeake: Origins of Black Society; The Africans Arrive; Toward Afro-American Slave Communities; The Origins of Afro-American Culture; 9. Beginnings of the Afro-American Family; African Slaves and Their Families; Afro-American Slave Households and Families; The Life Cycle of Afro-American Slaves; 10. Slavery and Segregation: Race Relations in the Chesapeake; Africans and English men

Slaves as Class and CasteStructure and Organization of Labor; Work Relations on the Tobacco Coast; Masters, Slaves, and Revolution; Afterword: The Birth of the Old South; The Crisis of Legitimacy; The Social Crisis: Land Scarcity and the Social Relations of Production; From Slavery to Freedom; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y



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Record Nr.

UNISA996395839903316

Autore

Vincent Thomas <1634-1678.>

Titolo

Gods terrible voice in the city of London [[electronic resource] ] : wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, indicted by the Lord upon that city, the former in the year 1665, the latter in the year 1666 / / by T.V

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [Mass.], : Printed by Samuel Green, 1667

Descrizione fisica

31 p

Soggetti

Plague - England - London

London (England) Fire, 1666

London (England) History 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"William Adams his booke; Cambridge, bought of Samuel Green February 19, 1667": ms. note p. 31.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062