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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.
Editions of Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
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- ISBN 9780807832349
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- ISBN 9798890882806
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469600406
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- ISBN 9780807895924
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890882790
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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.
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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.
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History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
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How long is Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit and how many pages does it have?
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit has 736 page(s)
Is Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit?
Lorena S. Walsh
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807832349) and ebook(ISBN 9798890882806) and ebook(ISBN 9781469600406) and ebook(ISBN 9780807895924) and pdf(ISBN 9798890882790)
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