Lorena S Walsh: 2 books
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture.
Walsh focuses on...
Robert Cole's World
Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Using this family's story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole's World provide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake,...