Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 /
This book is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, the author provides a comprehensive study of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the e...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From outpost to slave society, 1620-1700
- Land and labor in the household economy, 1680-1800
- The troubles with tobacco, 1700-1750
- The perils of prosperity, 1740-1800
- The origins of domestic patriarchy among white families
- From neighborhood to kin group : the development of a clan system
- The rise of the Chesapeake gentry
- From Africa to the Chesapeake : origins of black society
- Beginnings of the Afro-American family
- Slavery and segregation : race relations in the Chesapeake
- Afterword : the birth of the Old South.