A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves write by Anne E. Yentsch. This book was released on 1994-05-12. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a unique archaeological study of a British aristocratic family in eighteenth century Chesapeake.
A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves
A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves write by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch. This book was released on 1994-05-12. A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzing the material remains left by Maryland's colonists in the eighteenth century in conjunction with historical records and works of art, archaeologists have reconstructed the daily life of the aristocratic British Calvert family, whose head was governor of Maryland. In this large household people from different cultures interacted, and English and West African lifestyles merged. Using this fascinating case study, Anne Yentsch illustrates the way in which historical archaeology draws on different disciplines to interpret the past.
Slave Counterpoint
Slave Counterpoint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slave Counterpoint write by Philip D. Morgan. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Slave Counterpoint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.
Chesapeake
Chesapeake - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chesapeake write by James A. Michener. This book was released on 2013-12-17. Chesapeake available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one man’s dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Chesapeake “Another of James Michener’s great mines of narrative, character and lore.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . An emotionally and intellectually appealing book.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Michener’s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.”—Associated Press
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit write by Lorena S. Walsh. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
