Tobacco and slaves
Subtitle: the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
By: Allan Kulikoff.
Contributors: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va)
Publisher: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Tobacco industry -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Plantation life -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Slavery -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Economic conditions; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.