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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Lorena S. Walsh
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A 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. It contains stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 720 pages, 37 illustrations, 6 figures, 39 tables, 12 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1202.
This is the most complete picture yet of the early plantation economy. 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. Walsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary ... Read more
This is the most complete picture yet of the early plantation economy. 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. Walsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
Series
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Number of Pages
736
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807832349
SKU
V9780807832349
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About Lorena S. Walsh
LORENA S. WALSH is a historian with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the author, with Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard, of Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland.
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