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Walsh, Lorena S.

Financial Times Management

In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Using this family's story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole's World provide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake, including work routines and agricultural techniques, the upbringing of children, neighborhood relationships and community formation, and the role of religion. The Cole Plantation account, a record that details what the plantation produced, consumed, purchased, and sold over a twelve-year period, is the only known surviving document of its kind for seventeenth-century British America. Along with Cole's will, it serves as the framework around which the authors build their analysis. Drawing on these and other records, they present Cole as an exemplar of the ordinary planter whose success created the capital base for the slave-based plantation society of the eighteenth century.

Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

History

Menard, Russell R.

Carr, Lois Green

Americas

Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press

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.

Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

Business & Money

Economics

Omohundro Institute and UNC Press

Offering a collective portrait of a 17th and 18th century tidewater Virginia slave community, historian Walsh (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) provides a model multigenerational research perspective on antebellum slavery (including for a time, white indentured servants): its origins, culture, group evolution, and "the contours of daily living." The text is enhanced by b&amp;w illustrations, documents, and notes on methodology. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community (Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture)

Univ of Virginia Pr

The history of a Virginia slave community

From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community (Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture Series)

Africa

University of Virginia Press

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