..., becoming the congregation’s “venerated evangelical elder.” In 1739, a group of Danish sugar planters petitioned the governor of St. Thomas to end the Moravian mission on the island and throw out the Moravians, claiming that their slaves were being distracted from work by religious observances. That same...

... identified. Through analysis of the modes and methods of indigo cultivation and peasant-planter relationships, the chapter argues that, despite being based primarily on peasant cultivation, Indian indigo production should be considered a form of plantation in which peasants produced the crop for European...

... 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...

... Andrew Slaveholders Planters Whig party Governors of Alabama Smith William H Coulter E Merton Fleming Walter L Alabama counties Conecuh Avery Columbus Bozeman D B Civil War effects on north Alabama Deserters from Confederate army Guerrilla warfare during Civil War Halloway William Military...

...' acquisition of land in Colleton County and how they aspired to become planters. It demonstrates that the Musgroves earned their living principally by raising livestock and that they had begun planting rice by 1730. It finally explores the means by which the Musgroves moved south to Yamacraw bluff in 1732...

... examines the efforts of southern planters and manufacturers to hamper the activities of labor agents sent South to recruit Negro laborers. Two lanky Negro youths, their overalls powdered with the red dust of a Georgia road, paused at a street corner to listen to their friends and neighbors discussing...

... 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...

...This chapter examines the work of Scots in the West Indies plantations. It explains that Scots were only employed by planters, but many were landowners themselves, and they acted as magnets for employment applications. The practice of employing relatives or associates from the same part of Scotland...

...This chapter examines the labor recruitment and retention strategies developed by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association (HSPA) specifically for Filipino U.S. colonials. Learning from the mistakes of Puerto Rican recruitment, the HSPA successfully attracted legally mobile Filipinos to Hawaiʻi...

...Slavery was a cornerstone of antebellum Mississippi life, and legal controversies over slavery regularly roiled the state. In the 1840s, planter Isaac Ross’s desire to free his slaves sparked a dispute between Mississippi’s legislature and supreme court whether slave owners should be allowed...

... throughout the state. The scheme backfired and caused widespread indebtedness among Missouri's planters and their extended families, ending their decades-long domination of the state's economic and political life. The chain of events set off by the failed conspiracy was unique to Missouri, but the records...

... of this elite with little regard for the needs of the remainder of the society. Of course, this elite was far from monolithic; it included planters, merchants, professionals, and public officials. Planters, in expanding areas such as western Sao Paulo Province, had interests that differed from those...

...This chapter presents the opinion of the planters regarding the abolition of slavery; they convinced themselves that slaves, once freed of the lash, would not work. The landowners wanted the state to pay for the immigrant workers' passage and then force them to labor long hours at the lowest...

.... The results of the American Revolution were mixed. It led to Britain becoming very assertive in imperial matters, especially as an aggressive abolitionist movement developed, targeting West Indian planters as moral deviants. Ironically, that part of British America that became the United States of America...

...This chapter examines the legal regime created by the Maryland legislature to force free African Americans into wage dependence and how it was used by Eastern Shore planters to their advantage. It considers the unrelated criminal and civil laws, collectively known as the Black Codes, introduced...

... 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...

... and hygiene, British planters themselves attributed the rise of Indian tea to lower production costs from indenture. Starting in 1865, officials in India devised a system of regulated labor recruitment and penal contract employment for the Assam tea industry. It featured the restriction of worker movement...

...This chapter describes local planters or volunteer aides-de-camp that provided material assistance to Confederate Army units and to their commanding generals. It mentions Alexander Robert Chisolm, the owner of Chisolm Plantation on Coosaw Island, who brought men he held in bondage to Charleston...