While much scholarship has examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid to the class of landowners who dominated this society. Trevor Burnard has undertaken a systematic study of this agricultural elite, providing a glimpse into the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland during the period 1691-1776.
While much scholarship has examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid to the class of landowners who dominated t...
While much scholarship has examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid to the class of landowners who dominated this society. Trevor Burnard has undertaken a systematic study of this agricultural elite, providing a glimpse into the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland during the period 1691-1776.
While much scholarship has examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid to the class of landowners who dominated t...
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men--men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because--to speak bluntly--it worked. These...
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond...
