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Lädt ... Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740von Anthony S. Parent
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A rewarding, if tough book to read, Parent's thesis is that the creation of an authoritarian slavery-based society in Virginia was a conscious choice of the social leadership of the colony, not the result of a fit of absent-mindedness. The real teeth-grinding portions come when Parent examines the legal machinery by how the colonial elite beggered the native tribes, the lower rungs of white Virginia society, and then the African slaves. That these so-called "Great Planters" had trouble making their authority stick against the rest of the social order suggests why a slave society had to be created. One almost wants to cheer for the English and Scottish businessmen whom the planters bemoaned being endebted to, as they were the only force seemingly able to quell the pretentions of the upper echelon of Virginia society to being lords of the Earth. Unlike some other authors I've read of late, Parent is not apologetic about his social critique, and this is a better book for that fact. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)326.09755Social sciences Political Science Slavery and emancipation Trans-Atlantic Slavery Biography And History North America Southeastern U.S.Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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Title comes from a 1736 letter which states: "An unhappy Effect of Many Negroes, is the necessity of being severe. Numbers make them insolent, and then foul Means must do, what fair will not." ( )