Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 /
Allan Kulikoff.
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)1986.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 449 pages) : illustrations.
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
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.
9781469601229
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Tobacco industry--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Plantation life--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Slavery--History.--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)