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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

by Edmund S. Morgan. 454 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Edmund S. Morgan

Publisher:

   Norton

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1975
Subjects:   Slavery--Virginia, Virginia--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
Table of contents
Contents
MAP: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century vi
Acknowledgments
BOOK I: THE PROMISED LAND 1
DREAMS OF LIBERATION
THE LOST COLONY
IDLE INDIAN AND LAZY ENGLISHMAN
THE JAMESTOWN FIASCO
THE PERSISTENT VISION
BOOM
BOOK II: A NEW DEAL 131
SETTLING DOWN
LIVING WITH DEATH
THE TROUBLE WITH TOBACCO
A GOLDEN FLEECING
BOOK III: THE VOLATILE SOCIETY 213
THE LOSERS
DISCONTENT
REBELLION
STATUS QUO
BOOK IV: SLAVERY AND FREEDOM 293
TOWARD SLAVERY
TOWARD RACISM
TOWARD POPULISM
TOWARD THE REPUBLIC
Footnote Abbreviations
APPENDIX : Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
A Note on the Sources
Index
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Book by Edmund S. Morgan; Norton, 1975
Subjects: Slavery--Virginia, Virginia--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
...appear to the English who first came to Virginia that the Indians who lived along...Aboriginal Population of Tidewater Virginia," American Anthropologist , n.s...The History and Present State of Virginia , Louis B. Wright, ed. Chapel Hill...
2.
Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeologist's View of Colonial Life and History
Book by Ivor Noel Hume; Alfred A. Knopf, 1903
Subjects: Virginia--Antiquities, Virginia--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
...Dunthorne, and to its continuance throughout the colonial period. The nature and duration of the Indian occupancy...villages, crops, and canoes. Just as the modern Virginia hunters go out in the fall of the year to slaughter...estimated eighteen thousand that had lived there in 1600. Regardless of the fact that neither Indian uprising changed the course of history, at least as far as the colonists were concerned...of these Indian lithic objects were in use in the colonial period, as they could have found their way into the pits...about 1820. No Indian bows have been found in Virginia excavations; being of wood they would not normally...
3.
Virginia under the Stuarts, 1607-1688
Book by Thomas J. Wertenbaker; Princeton University Press, 1914
Subjects: Virginia--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
VIRGINIA UNDER THE STUARTS -ii- VIRGINIA UNDER THE STUARTS 1607-1688 BY THOMAS J. WERTENBAKER, Ph.D. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1914 Copyright, 1914, by PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS...
4.
Letters of Robert Carter, 1720-1727: The Commercial Interests of a Virginia Gentleman
Book by Louis B. Wright; Huntington Library, 1940
Subjects: Carter, Robert--1663-1732--Correspondence, Virginia--Commerce, Virginia--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Sources
...PUBLICATIONS A TYPICAL PACE OF THE LETTER BOOK Letters of Robert Carter 1720-1727 THE COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF A VIRGINIA GENTLEMAN Edited by LOUIS B. WRIGHT THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY SAN MARINO, CALIFORNIA 1940 Copyright, 1940...
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The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South
Book by Alex Bontemps; Cornell University Press, 2001
Subjects: African Americans--Southern States--Social Conditions--18th Century, Identity (Psychology)--Southern States--History--18th Century, Self-Preservation--Southern States--History--18th Century, Slavery--Southern States--Psychological Aspects, Slaves--Southern States--Psychology, Slaves--Southern States--Social Conditions--18th Century, Slaves--Southern States--Social Conditions--18th Century--Sources, Southern States--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775
...discussion is that slaverys true brutality was...THE SUBJECT A VIRGINIA Planter had a stout...the largest in Virginias history as a colony...development of slavery in America, especially...negative effects of slavery on whites, an analysis...on the State of Virginia half a century...
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To "Doe Some Good upon Their Countrymen": The Paradox of Indian Slavery in Early Anglo-America
Journal article by Michael Guasco; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Anglo-Americans--History, English Americans--History, Native American history, Native Americans--History, Pequot War, 1636-1638, Race relations--History, Slavery--History, Social Studies/American History/Historical Periods/Colonization and Settlement 1585-1763/Slavery's Affect on African Life in the Colonies, Social Studies/American History/Historical Periods/Colonization and Settlement 1585-1763/Slavery's Affect on European Life in the Colonies, United States history, 1600-1775 (Colonial period), United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...Toronto, 1981), 1:698, 700. 49. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts, 2, 3. The Narragansett...Ithaca, 2003), 72. 50. Kingsbury, Records of the Virginia Company, 3:69, 93 (2). 51. Bermuda Colonial Records (microfilm), 3:63-4. 52. Barbour, ed., The...Massachusetts (facsimile reprint of the 1648 ed.; San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1975), 4. 55. European observers...Turkes by Sir Thomas Sherley," E. Denison Ross, ed. (ca. 1607), in Camden Miscellany, XVI, 3rd series, 52...2 (April 2002): 341-76. Lauber, Indian Slavery in Colonial Times, 157-9. 61. Similar proposals, however, would...Brazil in 1570. 65. Richard Ligon, A True Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (London, 1673), 54; John Smith, A Map of Virginia (Oxford, 1612), cited in Billings, ed., The Old Dominion...
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The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700
Journal article by Alvin Rabushka; Policy Review, 2002
Subjects: Taxation--History, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...one shilling equals 12 pence; so one pound equals 240 pence. (5.) Philip Alexander Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1 (Macmillan and Co., 1896), 562. (6.) This story and other interesting anecdotes about taxation are scattered throughout William B. Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789, Vol. 1 (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894). (7.) Richard T. Ely, Taxation in American...foundation of America. (11.) An excellent source is Thomas C. Barrow, Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America, 1660-1775 (Harvard University Press, 1967). Alvin Rabushka is the David and Joan Traitel senior fellow at the Hoover Institution...
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An Inquiry into the Right of Criminal Juries to Determine the Law in Colonial America
Journal article by Stanton D. Krauss; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 89, 1998
Subjects: Jury nullification--History, Jury--Powers and duties, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...to judge the law in the colonial period.(47) My conclusion is that the published...lawfinding authority at times in colonial Pennsylvania and New York, there...prominence of the discussion of history in the current debates about jury...more data with respect to colonial Virginia, but we still dont know whether...serious student of that states legal history, commenting on a 1672 Massachusetts...wishes.(336) The question is whether colonial New Hampshire criminal juries were...rendered in civil cases during this period,(340) these verdicts didnt state...royal colony,"(374) there followed a period of strife during which the colonists...
4.
Tobacco and the Rise of Writing in Colonial Maryland
Journal article by Capper Nichols; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1996
Subjects: Maryland--History, Tobacco--Economic aspects, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...influence on the institution of slavery in the colony. Expansion...William Nuthead had come from Virginia and set up shop in St. Marys...well as literature of the period in Maryland, was dominated...discussed in Aubrey Lands Colonial Maryland: A History (Millwood, New York: KTO...Nathaniel Bacons Rebellion in Virginia." (18) See Wroth, Printing in Colonial Maryland; Bernard C. Steiner...
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The Colonial English Body as Commodity in Ebenezer Cooke's the Sot-Weed Factor
Journal article by Jim Egan; Criticism, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Authors--Evaluation, Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., New England--History, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...Cotton Mather, "The Way to Prosperity," in The Wall and the Garden: Selected Massachusetts Election Sermons, 1672-1775, ed. A. W. Plumstead (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968), 115-39; 137. (2.) Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia, ed. Louis B. Wright (1705; Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by The...of the Indian to "men like Beverly" (Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, 247). Lemay discusses the satiric components of...colonial literature, see Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973). (10.) In spite of the long-standing focus on New England...
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The First Generation
Magazine article by Lerone Bennett Jr.; Ebony, Vol. 50, February 1995
Subjects: African Americans--History, Indentured servants--History, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...same time. Despite or perhaps because of all this activity, Virginia, in August, 1619, was a community of fear. The White settlers...had little or no understanding of the concepts of race and slavery. There was no word then to name the crime. The legal documents...
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Real Speak - First Nations History
Magazine article by Alice Beck Kehoe; World and I, Vol. 16, October 2001
Subjects: Acquisition of territory--United States, Native American history, Native Americans--History, Territorial expansion--United States, United States history, 1600-1775 (Colonial period), United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...indigenous names. Capt. John Smith, at Jamestown in 1607, had no question he faced a king when he met with Powhatan. The Virginia and English monarchs exchanged gifts of royal robes in token of their mutual respect. When Smith, a commoner, insinuated...
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The Truth about the First Thanksgiving
Magazine article by James W. Loewen; Monthly Review, Vol. 44, November 1992
Subjects: Colonization--North America, Land settlement--History, Thanksgiving Day--History, United States history, 1600-1775 (Colonial period), United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
...Company sent settlers to Jamestown, Virginia. No matter. The mythic origin of "the...perhaps capture a few Indians to sell into slavery in Europe. On one of these expeditions...folk seeking their fortunes in the new Virginia colony. "The New England landing came...does not know the answer--that studying history is not just learning answers--that history...
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Glorious Dust: The Posthumous Masterwork of an Influential Black Historian Tells How Slavery Itself Undermined the Confederacy
Magazine article by Robert Roper; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007
Subjects: Art historians--Works, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Black studies--Social aspects, Blacks--Social aspects, Blacks--Study and teaching, Educational programs--Evaluation, Nonfiction--Criticism and interpretation, Robinson, Armstead L.--Criticism and interpretation, Robinson, Armstead L.--Works, Slavery--Political aspects, Slavery--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Portrayals
...history at the University of Virginia, the founding director of...of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the...major works of Southern history published in the last 140...generals (mostly in the Virginia theater) and a populace...summarily reenrolled for a period of three years or the wars...campaigns in all military history," Robinson argues--escaped...by Lee and Jackson in the Virginia theater, dividing his forces...
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Slavery and the Black Family
Magazine article by James Q. Wilson; Public Interest, Spring 2002
Subjects: African Americans--Family, Single-parent family--Demographic aspects, Slavery--Social aspects, The Marriage Problem (Book)--Excerpts
...As the distinguished historian Orlando Patterson argued, slavery prevented a black man from being either a father or a husband...data and used them, and other findings from her research on Virginia, to support the view that there was a great variety of household...
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A Plan to Halt Slavery in Virginia; Nat Turner's Bloody Uprising Prompted Lawmaker's Reaction
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 3, 2007
Subjects: Legislators--Planning, Slavery
A Plan to Halt Slavery in Virginia; Nat Turners Bloody Uprising Prompted Lawmakers Reaction. Byline...his schooling at Georgetown College. He graduated in 1822. Anti-slavery plan Faulkners activities over the next few years are hard to trace...
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Forging Iron and Slavery in Valley of Virginia
Newspaper article by Richard V. Anderson; The Washington Times, November 30, 1996
...upper end of the Valley of Virginia. In Rockbridge and Alleghany...should have engaged in chattel slavery. He was a Northerner and great-grandson...employed the whip, his career as a Virginia iron maker would have been...naval hero and professor at the Virginia Military Institute). Light...
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Uprisings by Slaves Bring Harsh Responses; Tough Virginia Legislation Targets Abolitionists, Too
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 14, 2007
Subjects: Slavery
Uprisings by Slaves Bring Harsh Responses; Tough Virginia Legislation Targets Abolitionists, Too. Byline: Paul N. Herbert, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever it exists, because...
4.
Slavery Row Hits the Queen
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 3, 2007
Subjects: Slavery
...efforts to drag her into the slavery row. A chorus of shrill voices...apologise publicly when she visits Virginia to mark the 400th anniversary...was rejected. Officials in Virginia have said it would be a welcome...she makes in her speech to Virginias state assembly in Richmond...
5.
North Landowners Boosted by Slavery
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 10, 2007
Subjects: Slavery
...who supported and those who resisted slavery. It also tells the story of Mary Ann Macham, a runaway slave from Virginia in America, who ended up living in North...freedom. Hazel Edwards, senior keeper of history at Tyne Wear Museums, said that Tyneside...
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West Virginia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Spruce Knob (4,860 ft/1,481 m). West Virginia is well drained; its important rivers...farms and the almost total absence of slavery were already contributing to a sense...the mines rapidly declined as West Virginia suffered through one of the worst economic periods in its history. By 1983 the states unemployment rate...
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Slavery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...A. H. Abel, The Slaveholding Indians (3 vol., 1915 25; repr. 1970); G. Glotz, Ancient Greece at Work: An Economic History of Greece from the Homeric Period to the Roman Conquest (1926, repr. 1967); R. H. Barrow, Slavery in the Roman Empire (1928, repr. 1968); U. B. Phillips...1963); W. L. Westermann, Upon Slavery in Ptolemaic Egypt (1929); M. W. Jernegan, Laboring and Dependent Classes in Colonial America, 1607 1738 (1931, repr. 1965); W. L. Mathieson, British Slavery and Its Abolition, 1823 1838 (1926, repr...
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Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Virginia became a royal colony, the first in English history. Partly because the English kings were occupied with affairs at home, the Virginia house of burgesses was able to continue its functions...qualifications for voting continued during and after the colonial period. Most of the white settlers were Anglicans, and during...again aided the war effort. In the prosperous postwar period the conservative Byrd organization maintained its...public school integration, attempts at desegregating Virginias schools proceeded slowly. After Virginia courts and...Bibliography See F. B. Simkins et al., Virginia: History, Government, Geography (1957); C. H. Ambler, Sectionalism...
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Kentucky , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...protest in Kentucky (see Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions ). The state grew fast as...politics for almost half a century. The Slavery Issue and Civil War In the first half...decline in manufacturing during the same period. Bibliography See S. A. Channing...Davenport, Ante-Bellum Kentucky: A Social History, 1800 1860 (1943, repr. 1983); J. Goldstein...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. During this period, there were also large numbers...President and the Vice President. History European Exploration and Settlement...settlement was made at Jamestown (Virginia) in 1607. The first English settlements...specified number of years. The colonial population was also swelled by...in the American Revolution (1775 83; the events are described under...9, the first president in the history of the republic to be driven from...the most severe levels since the period following World War II. He was...highest public approval rating in history. Mounting domestic problems, however...States went through a transitional period during the 1980s and early 90s...
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