Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and ... History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

by LorenaS.Walsh (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

  $115.73

  A 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. It contains stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers.