Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom - 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 Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom write by Rhys Isaac. This book was released on 2005-09-29. Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom - 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 Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom write by Rhys Isaac. This book was released on 2005-09-29. Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom. Carter writes at white heat, his words sputtering from his pen as he documents the terrible rupture that the Revolution meant to him. Indeed, Carter felt in his heart that he was chronicling a world in decline, the passing of the order that his revered father had bequeathed to him. Not only had Landon's king betrayed his subjects, but Landon's own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. The seismic upheaval he helped to start had crumbled the foundations of Carter's own home. In Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom Rhys Isaac unfolds not only the life, but also the mental world of our countrymen in a long-distant time. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter's passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world's literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. This long-awaited work will be seen both as a major contribution to Revolution history and a triumph of the art of biography.
Uneasy Kingdom
Uneasy Kingdom - 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 Uneasy Kingdom write by Carter's Landon. This book was released on . Uneasy Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Overseers of Early American Slavery
The Overseers of Early American Slavery - 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 The Overseers of Early American Slavery write by Laura R. Sandy. This book was released on 2020-04-03. The Overseers of Early American Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved labourers, as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society.
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.
