Foul means : the formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740
Anthony S. Parent (Author), Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (Issuing body)
Publisher description: Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730
eBook, English, 2003
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill [North Carolina], 2003
History
1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781469601137, 9798890871862, 1469601133
607180084
Origins: land, labor, and trade: The landgrab. The labor switch. Cyclical crisis, 1680-1723
Conflicts: race and class. The laws of slavery. Revolt and response, 1676-1740. Class conflicts, 1724-1740
Reactions: ideology and religion. The emergence of patriarchism, 1700-1740. Baptism and bondage, 1700-1740
Coda: foul means must do, what fair will not
Appendix I. Black headright patents. Appendix 2. St. Peter's parish
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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