| Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 Contributor(s): Walsh, Lorena S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807832340 ISBN-13: 9780807832349 Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 338.109 |
| LCCN: 2009033897 |
| Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (2.65 lbs) 736 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Geographic Orientation - Virginia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 reason for large planters' debt was their purchase of capital assets--especially slaves--early in their careers. In the later stages of their careers, chronic indebtedness was rare. Walsh's narrative incorporates stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the suffering, resistance, and occasional minor victories of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walsh, Lorena S.: - Lorena S. Walsh was for twenty-seven years a historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She is author of From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community and coauthor of Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland(UNC Press). |