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383:, Kulikoff states that there have been two tendencies among modern historians of the Chesapeake. Scholars either stress the importance of economic and demographic patterns of development in the 17th century or the political and cultural transformations in the 18th century. "Both groups," asserts Kulikoff, "tend to slight the significance of the half-century before the Revolution." "In contrast," insists Kulikoff, "the kind of familial, class, and race relations found in the antebellum South first developed in the Chesapeake region between 1720 and 1770." In this period, Kulikoff argues that three structural changes led to the creation of a racial caste system: a decline in opportunity for social mobility for whites, the beginnings of 402:, and the formation of the gentry and yeoman classes. Slaves, on the other hand, witnessed the development of black communities, the creation of extended families and eventually kinship networks, and finally the development of a new racial etiquette that governed the relationship between master and slave. 241:. Kulikoff uses statistics compiled from colonial court and church records, tobacco sales, and land surveys to conclude that economic, political, and social developments in the 18th-century Chesapeake established the foundations of economics, politics, and society in the 19th-century South. 27: 350:
Along with social and cultural histories, historians of the Chesapeake continued to study the relationships between politics and the economy that drew the Chesapeake colonies into the Revolution. Ronald Hoffman's
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forward diverse interpretations of the connections between politics, economy, and revolution and the changes they elicited. Out of this historiographic milieu, Allan Kulikoff produced
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Kulikoff analyzes the consequences of these structural shifts for white and black residents of the Chesapeake. White inhabitants experienced the creation of
327:(1975), Lois G. Carr and Lorena S. Walsh's article "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland" (1977) printed in the 391:. These changes encouraged the formation of classes through efforts by the gentry to "mak slaves efficient workers and devis a ruling class ideology." 682: 677: 667: 632: 596: 622: 456:
For a summary of pre-1960s historiography, see Richard S. Dunn, "Quantifying the History of the Chesapeake in the Eighteenth Century,"
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in an attempt to synthesize the disparate interpretations and analyses with his own research of the Chesapeake.
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15 (December 1987): p. 563; Thad W. Tate, "The Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake and Its Modern Historians," in
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During the early 20th century, the historiography of the Chesapeake colonies was dominated by the
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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
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American politics. Much attention was given to the families of prominent Virginian statesmen
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slaves and women remained in the periphery of studies of the Chesapeake until the 1960s.
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Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800
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The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain
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Torchbearer of the Revolution: The Story of Bacon's Rebellion and Its Leaders
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The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919–1945
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The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society
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A Spirit of Dissension: Economics, Politics, and the Revolution in Maryland
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Dunn, "Quantifying the History of the Chesapeake," pp. 563–564, 568n1.
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Flight and Rebellion: Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia
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American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
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The Southern Colonies in the Seventheenth Century, 1607–1689
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Despite revision of the traditional historiography,
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Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South
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Allan Kulikoff
Province of Maryland
Colony of Virginia
Slavery in the United States
University of North Carolina Press
Institute of Early American History and Culture
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-8078-1671-X
ISBN
0-8078-4224-9
OCLC
12081526
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
historian
Allan Kulikoff
historiography
Chesapeake
neo-Marxist
racial
caste system
tobacco
Maryland
Virginia
southern
slave society
Cavalier myth

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