Download or read book Tobacco Trader on the Corotoman written by Lois Crane Williams and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Tobacco in the Northern Neck of Virginia
Download or read book Tobacco Trader on the Corotoman written by Lois Crane Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tobacco trader of this book is Col. James Gordon of Lancaster County, Virginia. Gordon's journal of 1759 through 1763 provides a first-hand record of his activities as a planter, slaveholder and merchant, and his involvement in Virginia's tobacco trade. The book continues with Gordon's role in the cause of the Northern Neck dissenters to the established church, his son's 'dream town' of Gordonsville, and the Gordon family's house, now known as Verville. The book is a vivid portrait of upper Lancaster County gentry prior to the Revolutionary War."--Back cover.
Download or read book Anna of Corotoman written by and published by Barbara Frank. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tobacco Trade in Virginia During the Revolution written by Fred Milton Brown and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Carter of Nomini Hall written by Louis Morton and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study was not written as a biography; it is rather a description of the various economic and social aspects of the plantation system as reflected in the career of one planter. Biographical material has been used with this end in view. Throughout, the career of Robert Carter serves as a framework upon which to construct the story of the Virginia aristocracy."-- Foreword.
Download or read book Robert King Carter written by Katharine L. Brown and published by Foundation for Historic Christ Church. This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Carter, son of John Carter (ca. 1613-1669) and arah Ludlow, was born in 1663 in Virginia. He married Judith Armistead (1666-1699), daughter of John Armistead and Judith, in 1688. They had five children. He married Betty Landon (1683/4-1719), daughter of Thomas Landon and Mary, in 1701. They had ten children. He died in 1732.
Download or read book Tobacco in Colonial Virginia The Sovereign Remedy written by G. Melvin Herndon and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Download or read book The Position Tobacco Has Ever Held as the Chief Source of Wealth to Virginia Presented by the Southern Fertilizing Company Richmond Va written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foul Means written by Anthony S. Parent Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730.
Download or read book Landon Carter s Uneasy Kingdom written by Rhys Isaac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A topping People written by Emory G. Evans and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.
Download or read book Motives of Honor Pleasure and Profit written by Lorena S. Walsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Iron Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters Journals Diaries of ye Colonial America written by Don Corbly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 93 stories provide a unique insight into the lives of mostly ordinary colonial people who lived in extraordinary times. Read the first description of the New World in the exploring ship captain's logbook, a letter from the first indentured servant, and the trial of Bridget Bishop, the first person hung for witchcraft in Salem. Compare the diary of the richest man in Virginia to Mary Cooper's diary wherein she longed for rest from her labors.Read 16-year-old George Washington's Rules of Civility, the pathetic letter from near-destitute indentured Elizabeth Sprig, Benjamin Franklin's account of Grime's confession and hanging, John Adams' defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre, and the first prayer given in the First Continental Congress.Read 16-year-old Sally Wister's diary of the battle of Germantown, a journal of the participants in the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's account of his Midnight Ride, and newspaper accounts of President Washington's death and funeral.
Download or read book Tobacco Colony written by Gloria Lund Main and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting out to describe the full spectrum of everyday life in early Maryland, this work integrates a range of economic, demographic, and anthropological approaches to the study of a colony in which tobacco was the staple crop. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography written by Philip Alexander Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Here Be Dragons written by David W. Koerner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than either the Copernican or Darwinian revolutions, which knocked the earth from the center of the universe and humankind from its position of lofty self-regard. In Here Be Dragons, astronomer David Koerner and neurobiologist Simon LeVay offer a scientifically compelling and colorful account of the search for life beyond Earth. The authors survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI researchers, roboticists, and UFO enthusiasts and debunkers as they attempt to answer the greatest remaining question facing humankind: Are we alone? From their "safe haven of skepticism" the authors venture into the "rough seas of speculation," where theory and evidence run the gamut from hard science to hocus pocus. Arguing that the universe is spectacularly suited for the evolution of living creatures, Koerner and LeVay give us ringside seats at the great debates of Big Science. The contenitous arguments about what really happens in evolution, the acrimonious UFO controversy, and the debate over intelligence versus artificial intelligence shed new light on the wildly divergent claims about the universe and life's place in it. The authors argue that while no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life yet exists, habitats and chemical building blocks for life abound in the universe. A wealth of new astronomical techniques and space missions may provide this evidence early in the next century. Lucidly written and scientifically rigorous, Here Be Dragons presents everything we know thus far about the emergence of intelligent life here on earth and, perhaps, beyond.
