Author: Robert Noel GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prince Edward County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia: Sources
Author: Robert Noel GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prince Edward County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin
Author: Virginia Lawyers, 1680-1776
Author: Alan McKinley SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Genealogical Helper
Author: Reports
Author: Westminster, Hospital, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Author: Lorena S. WalshPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080789592X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
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.
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: The Bill of Rights
Author: Lawrence Delbert CressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"No document in our history has seen more recurrent controversy than the Bill of Rights. The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, our eighteenth-century statements of fundamental rights, continue to guide the administration of justice and shaping of public policy in today's world of rapid communication and complex technology. The volume's twelve historical essays by expert scholars illuminate contemporary life by describing the major elements of the Bill of Rights in terms that readers can understand and appreciate. -- Amazon.com.
York County, Virginia Wills, Inventories, and Court Orders
Author: Mary Marshall BrewerPublisher:
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Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages :
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National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: National Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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