... planters, even more than monarchs themselves, determined the contours of licit conduct on the other side of the ocean. In reconstructing the evolution of the Virginia venture from the era of Elizabethan captains to the Jacobean Virginia Company to the seventeenth-century politics of forging an English...

...Chapter Three explores women’s roles in propelling the growth of Jamaica’s plantation economy. It uses a rare collection of letters authored by a female planter, Mary Elbridge, to explore the varied agricultural activities of women living in the island’s rural regions. This chapter complicates...

... Carolina's towns of Bath and New Bern. The Low Country surrounding Charles Town produced large quantities of rice and indigo, and South Carolina rice planters were absolutely the wealthiest men in England's North American colonies. It certainly attracted its fair share of visitors and migrants. John Lawson...

... with the battle between sugar planters and the Navy concerning the limits placed on the exploitation of Cuba's forests in the interests of shipbuilding. Attention then turns to issues that sparked debates about forests, lumber, and dismantlements in 1797 and 1798, including the scarcity and high price of lumber...

... wages in the hope of one day purchasing their freedom. It also narrates the arrival of war in their part of Newport News, Virginia, and the way in which planters in the region began leaving the area first. This opened up room for enslaved people like the Whitehursts to flee to Union lines beginning...

...This chapter focuses on the optimism of farmers and planters in the Confederacy amid the possibilities of war and disunion. As the fateful year of 1861 began, many southerners worried about the looming conflict and anxiously awaited the course of events. Farmers hoped for the best politically...

...This chapter discusses the harsh realities of the Civil War and the impact of conflict on agriculture in the Eastern Confederacy. Southern farmers and planters greeted the arrival of 1863 with guarded optimism across the Eastern Confederacy. In mid-January Georgia farmers crowded the streets...

...This epilogue reflects on the changes wrought by the Civil War on agriculture in the Confederacy. Few white farmers and planters or black agricultural workers could express much optimism after the war. Rice production in the coastal country of South Carolina and Georgia had been ruined. Dikes...

... Thomas Edenton education Fortsen Mary Leigh Daniel literacy Lovick John Presbyterians Protestants Salter Edward Gordon William Griffin Charles Harvey Sarah Laker Mashborne Edward Rainsford Giles Colonial Life Survival Colonial Society Albemarle Planters Farmers Artisans Traders Anna...

... simply to upstanding Roman citizens who owned property. The Roman pater familias had a responsibility to protect his dependents—wife, children, and slaves—but he also had the power of life and death over them. In the antebellum South, southern planters cultivated a paternalistic...

... peninsula, but the qualitative and quantitative investment that it made in these projects set it apart from previous states. Encouraged by the success of their British and Dutch neighbors, French planters envisioned turning biologically and culturally diverse landscapes into neat rows of hevea...

... with antebellum medical journals, planters' diaries, agricultural publications, letters from wounded African American soldiers, WPA narratives, and military and Freedmen's Bureau reports, the author traces African Americans' political acts to secure medical care: their organizing mutual-aid societies...

...This chapter focuses on the problems faced by farmers and planters in the Western Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. In the Western Confederacy, many farmers and planters greeted the year 1862 with optimism that faded to despair by December. When the fighting began, the substantial expanse...

...This chapter focuses on the most important referendum in Georgia's history and how plain folk and planters voted: the selection of delegates to the secession convention on January 2, 1861. According to Jacksonville lawyer and unionist William Paine, the plain folk who bothered to vote were...

...This chapter suggests what workers actually want. The explanation in this chapter depends on an investigation of agricultural change and its reception by both planters and workers. A professionalizing agricultural science sector and federal support began opening up a region that had traditionally...

... the backdrop of the political tensions and religious divisions of the Thirty Years War, the colony's supporters in both England and Virginia adopted a new justificatory approach that centered on the providential importance of the planter. Defining Virginia as a polity that rested on the reciprocal bond between...

...This chapter discusses the losses suffered by farmers and planters in the Western Confederacy because of the raging Civil War. Gentle rains and warm spring temperatures made farmers in the Western Confederacy optimistic and created great anticipation that the wheat crop would be bountiful...

...This chapter focuses on the hard times experienced by farmers and planters in the Eastern Confederacy at the height of the Civil War. In the Eastern Confederacy farmers and planters greeted 1864 with a feeling of despondency. In this last full year of the war, Union forces pressed General Robert E...