Race and Class in Colonial Virginia
Author | : Joseph Douglas Deal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Douglas Deal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen M. Brown |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838292 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia.
Author | : Kathleen Mary Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Discrimination |
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Author | : Anna S Agbe-Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-06-03 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1315416689 |
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities. A common artifact in colonial period sites, previous publications on this subject have focused on the decorations on the pipes or which ethnic group produced and used the pipes, “European,” “African,” or “Indian.” This book weaves together new interpretations, analytical techniques, classification schemes, historical background, and archaeological methods and theory. Special attention is paid to the subfield of African diaspora research to display the complexities of understanding this class of material culture. This fascinating study is accessible to the undergraduate reader, as well as to graduate students and scholars.
Author | : Anthony S. Parent Jr. |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807839132 |
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.
Author | : Christopher Carter Todd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Boskin |
Publisher | : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Morris Talpalar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Neil Gotanda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Turk McCleskey |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2014-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813935830 |
In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward Tarr, he became the first free black landowner west of the Blue Ridge. Tarr established a blacksmith shop on the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the Carolinas and helped found a Presbyterian congregation that exists to this day. Living with him was his white, Scottish wife, and in a twist that will surprise the modern reader, Tarr’s neighbors accepted his interracial marriage. It was when a second white woman joined the household that some protested. Tarr’s already dramatic story took a perilous turn when the predatory son of his last master, a Charleston merchant, abruptly entered his life in a fraudulent effort to reenslave him. His fate suddenly hinged on his neighbors, who were all that stood between Tarr and a return to the life of a slave. This remarkable true story serves as a keyhole narrative, unlocking a new, more complex understanding of race relations on the American frontier. The vividly drawn portraits of Tarr and the women with whom he lived, along with a rich set of supporting characters in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, provide fascinating insight into the journey from slavery to freedom, as well as the challenges of establishing frontier societies. The story also sheds light on the colonial merchant class, Indian warfare in southwest Virginia, and slavery’s advent west of the Blue Ridge. Contradicting the popular view of settlers in southern Virginia as poor, violent, and transient, this book--with its pathbreaking research and gripping narrative--radically rewrites the history of the colonial backcountry, revealing it to be made up largely of close-knit, rigorously governed communities.