Title Motives of honor, pleasure, and profit : plantation management in the colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 / Lorena S. Walsh

Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010] ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 704 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Colonial Williamsburg studies in Chesapeake history and culture Colonial Williamsburg studies in Chesapeake history and culture. Contents The plantation economy begins, 1607-1639 -- The age of the small planter, 1640-1679 -- An era of hard times : Virginia, 1680-1729 -- Strategies of adaptation and change : Maryland, the periphery, and regional divergence, 1680-1729 -- The Tidewater economy comes of age : Southern Virginia, 1730-1763 -- Managing for posterity : Rappahannock and Potomac Virginia, 1730-1763 -- Maryland, the periphery, and agricultural change, 1730-1763 -- Reassessing the Golden Age -- Epilogue -- Appendix I : Tobacco crop shares per laborer -- Appendix II : Corn crop shares per laborer -- Appendix III : Wheat crop shares per laborer Summary Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. She argues that, in the mid-17th century, planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the lives of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Plantations -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Management -- History Tobacco industry -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Management -- History HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Plantations -- Management Tobacco industry -- Management United States -- Chesapeake Bay Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. LC no. 2009033897 ISBN 9781469600406 1469600404

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