Lorena S. Walsh's Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation PDF

By Lorena S. Walsh

Lorena Walsh deals an enlightening historical past of plantation administration within the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, starting from the founding of Jamestown to the shut of the Seven Years' warfare and the tip of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture.

Walsh makes a speciality of the operation of greater than thirty person plantations and at the judgements that giant planters made approximately how they'd run their farms. She argues that, within the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites intentionally selected to embody slavery. ahead of 1763 the first reason behind huge planters' debt was once their buy of capital assets--especially slaves--early of their careers. within the later phases in their careers, persistent indebtedness was once infrequent.

Walsh's narrative contains tales concerning the planters themselves, together with relatives dynamics and relationships with enslaved employees. bills of non-public and family members fortunes one of the privileged minority and the fewer good documented debts of the ache, resistance, and low minor victories of the enslaved staff upload a private measurement to extra concrete measures of planter luck or failure.

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