Gentlemen Freeholders
Gentlemen Freeholders

Author: Charles S. Sydnor

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0807839701

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Here is a vivid picture of late eighteenth-century Virginia's keen and often hot-tempered local politics. Sydnor has filled his book with the lively details of campaign practices, the drama of election day, the workings of the county oligarchies, and the practical politics of that training school for statesmen, the Virginia House of Burgesses. Originally published in 1952. (This book was also published under the title American Revolutionaries in the Making in 1965.) A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion
Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion

Author: Christopher Michael Curtis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1107017408

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Jefferson's Freeholders explores the processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. Focusing on ideas of ownership, the book emphasizes the persistent influence of English common law on the state's political culture. It uniquely details how the traditional principles of land tenure were subverted by the economic and political changes of the nineteenth century and how they fostered law reforms that encouraged the idea that slavery should replace land ownership as the distinguishing basis for political power.

Gentlemen and Freeholders
Gentlemen and Freeholders

Author: John Gilman Kolp

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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In pre-Revolutionary Virginia, wealthy "gentlemen" shared the political arena with small planters called freeholders. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, John Gilman Kolp examines why these freeholders politically supported and voted for runners of the upper class. 18 illustrations.

Tobacco and Slaves
Tobacco and Slaves

Author: Allan Kulikoff

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0807839221

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Tobacco and Slaves is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, Allan Kulikoff provides the most comprehensive study to date of changing social relations--among both blacks and whites--in the eighteenth-century South. He links his arguments about class, gender, and race to the later social history of the South and to larger patterns of American development. Allan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.