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Patriarchy in Peril : William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia
Author
Title
Patriarchy in Peril : William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia / Dennis Todd.
ISBN
9781621908104
9781621908098
Publication
Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"William Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres of land and employed laborers and enslaved Africans. This book examines a neglected stage in the formation of slavery in Virginia by analyzing the practices and beliefs of one of the more prominent slave owners of the period. Byrd was perhaps the early colonial definition of a patriarch, and author Dennis Todd here grounds the concept of patriarchalism in a series of concrete practices and expectations. Doing so, Todd argues that patriarchal principles, which are often assumed to have justified slavery and to have offered a template for slave management, in fact did neither"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2023
Contents
Here at the end of the world
Carrying the machine forward : William Byrd and his slaves
Our fellow creatures : William Byrd and slavery
In the bear latitudes.
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Genre/Form
History.
Biographies.
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