Foul means : the formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 /
Parent, Anthony S.,
Foul means : the formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 / Formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 Anthony S. Parent, Jr. - 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, (c)2003. - 1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps - HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law HeinOnline UNC Press law publications .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Origins: land, labor, and trade: The landgrab. The labor switch. Cyclical crisis, 1680-1723 -- Conflicts: race and class. The laws of slavery. Revolt and response, 1676-1740. Class conflicts, 1724-1740 -- Reactions: ideology and religion. The emergence of patriarchism, 1700-1740. Baptism and bondage, 1700-1740 -- Coda: foul means must do, what fair will not -- Appendix I. Black headright patents. Appendix 2. St. Peter's parish.
Publisher description: Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781469601137
2002155801
Slavery--History--Virginia--18th century.
Plantation life--History.--Virginia
Plantation owners--Social conditions.--Virginia
Enslaved persons--Social conditions.--Virginia
Elite (Social sciences)--History.--Virginia
Social conflict--History.--Virginia
Electronic Books.
E445 / .F685 2003
Foul means : the formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 / Formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740 Anthony S. Parent, Jr. - 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, (c)2003. - 1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps - HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law HeinOnline UNC Press law publications .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Origins: land, labor, and trade: The landgrab. The labor switch. Cyclical crisis, 1680-1723 -- Conflicts: race and class. The laws of slavery. Revolt and response, 1676-1740. Class conflicts, 1724-1740 -- Reactions: ideology and religion. The emergence of patriarchism, 1700-1740. Baptism and bondage, 1700-1740 -- Coda: foul means must do, what fair will not -- Appendix I. Black headright patents. Appendix 2. St. Peter's parish.
Publisher description: Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781469601137
2002155801
Slavery--History--Virginia--18th century.
Plantation life--History.--Virginia
Plantation owners--Social conditions.--Virginia
Enslaved persons--Social conditions.--Virginia
Elite (Social sciences)--History.--Virginia
Social conflict--History.--Virginia
Electronic Books.
E445 / .F685 2003