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Loading... Colonial Virginia : a history (1986)by Warren M. Billings, John E. Selby (Author), Thad W. Tate (Author)
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This book looks at the the colony of Virginia and the underlying tensions and insecurities that characterized it from the beginning. This includes a work force dominated by bound laborers; planter aristocrats who had neighter the wealth nor leisure of English country squires; and increasing inequalities that produced great social and economic stratification. These uncertainties were eventually replaced by the wealth of the tabacco trade. Yet this industry forced the colony's dependence on a large unfree labor force. It also made the colony more susceptible to increasing British pressures, from creditors and Parliment alike. By the mid-eighteenth century, these tensions spurred Virginia into the Revolutionary fray, in which the colony's leaders (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and others) played a major role. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)975.5History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. VirginiaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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