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Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / Allan Kulikoff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)1986.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 449 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469601229
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HC107 .T633 1986
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Land and labor in the household economy, 1680-1800 -- The troubles with tobacco, 1700-1750 -- The perils of prosperity, 1740-1800 -- part 2. White society. 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 -- part 3. Black society. 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.
Subject: 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 eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

part 1. The political economy of tobacco. 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 -- part 2. White society. 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 -- part 3. Black society. 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.

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 eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development.

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