Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800

Chapel Hill, NC/ Williamsburg, VA/ London: Institute of Early American History and Culture/ University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are clean and clear. Binding is tight.). Orange cloth boards with black spine lettering; white dj with bw illustration and black lettering, mylar cover; xviii, 449 pp, bw illustrated title page; bw charts and illustrations. "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." dj. Contents: pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.