The nature of slavery: environmental disorder and slave agency in colonial South Carolina / S. Max Edelson -- "For want of a social set": networks and social interaction in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, 1725-1775 / Bradford J. Wood -- "Almost an Englishman": eighteenth-century Anglo-African identities / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Conservation, class, and controversy in early America / Robert M. Weir -- Beyond declension: economic adaptation and the pursuit of export markers in the Massachusetts Bay region, 1630-1700 / James E. McWilliams -- Paternalism and profits: planters and overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825 / James M. Baird -- "The fewnesse of handicraftsmen": artisan adapation and innovation in the colonial Chesapeake / Jean B. Russo -- The other "Sesquahannah traders": women and exchange on the Pennsylvania frontier / James H. Marrell -- A death in the morning: the murder of Daniel Parke / Natalie Zacek -- Enjoying and defending charter privileges: corporate status and political culture in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Edward M. Cook, Jr. -- Native Americans, the plan of 1764, and a British empire that never was / Daniel K. Richter -- Between private and public spheres: liberty as cultural property in eighteenth-century British America / Michal Jan Rozbicki. |