Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 / Allan Kulikoff
Published
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]
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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed March 17, 2017)