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

• Autore: Kulikoff Allan
• Pubblicazione: 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
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (468 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.09755/18
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Economic conditions; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Social conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): DunneLaura
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Tobacco and slaves
• ISBN: 979-88-908852-1-0; 0-8078-3922-1; 1-4696-0122-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788864603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia