Colonial Chesapeake New Perspectives

by Meyers, Debra; Perreault, Melanie; Alsop, James D.; Angelis, Angelo; Brown, Thomas; Cardno, Catherine; Fawver, Kate; Mallios, Seth William; Meacham, Sarah Hand

• ISBN13: 9780739110911
• ISBN10: 0739110918
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-07
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives examines the Chesapeake region from historical, sociological, anthropological, archaeological, and literary perspectives. The anthology uses these perspectives to represent the multitude of experiences in the region and in doing so captures the essence of race, class, and ethnic and gender diversity that made up life in early Chesapeake Maryland and Virginia.

Table of Contents

Letter to Francis Borgia (1572)	p. 3
A declaration of the state of the colony and ... a relation of the barbarous massacre (1622)	p. 7
The creation of Ajacan's martyrs : employing a new analytical technique on early colonial Chesapeake narratives	p. 11
"We washed not the ground with their bloods" : intercultural violence and identity in the early Chesapeake	p. 23
Harford County census, excerpt (1776)	p. 47
An act for the encouraging the importacon of Negros and slaues into this province (1671)	p. 49
The black family in the Chesapeake : new evidence, new perspectives	p. 51
"To swear him free" : ethnic memory as social capital in eighteenth-century freedom petitions	p. 81
The declaration of the people against Sir William Berkeley and present governors of Virginia (1676)	p. 109
Navy morbidity data (1740-1741)	p. 113
"By consent of the people" : riot and regulation in seventeenth-century Virginia	p. 117
Royal Navy morbidity in early eighteenth-century Virginia	p. 141
Leah and Rachel, or, the two fruitfull sisters, Virginia and Mary-Land (1656)	p. 181
An act concearning servants that haue bastards (1658)	p. 185
An act for the publication of marriages (1658)	p. 187
An act for punishment of blasphemy, fornication, adultery, prophane swearing, and cursing (1699)	p. 189
Poetry from the Maryland Almanack	p. 193
"They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760	p. 201
Reconstructing gender : early modern English politics and religion in the Chesapeake	p. 227
"The fruit of nine, Sue kindly brought" : colonial enforcement of sexual norms in eighteenth-century Maryland	p. 257
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