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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kulikoff, Allan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1986]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.