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: 9780739110928
• ISBN10: 0739110926
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-31
• 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

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Debra Meyers
Melanie Perreault
Part One Memory: Colonial Narrative and Ethnic Identity
Letter to Francis Borgia (1572)	3	(4)
Juan Rogel
A Declaration of the State of the Colony and . . . a Relation of the Barbarous Massacre (1622)	7	(4)
Edward Waterhouse
The Creation of Ajacan's Martyrs: Employing a New Analytical Technique on Early Colonial Chesapeake Narratives	11	(12)
Seth William Mallios
``We Washed Not the Ground with Their Bloods'': Intercultural Violence and Identity in the Early Chesapeake	23	(28)
Melanie Perreault
Part Two Race: Family and Memory of the Enslaved
Harford County Census, excerpt (1776)	47	(2)
An Act for the Encouraging the Importacon of Negros and Slaues into this Province (1671)	49	(2)
The Black Family in the Chesapeake: New Evidence, New Perspectives	51	(30)
Kathleen Fawver
``To Swear Him Free'': Ethnic Memory As Social Capital in Eighteenth-Century Freedom Petitions	81	(36)
Thomas F. Brown
Leah C. Sims
Part Three Class: Rebel Reformers and Sick Sailors
The Declaration of the People against Sir William Berkeley and Present Governors of Virginia (1676)	109	(4)
Nathaniel Bacon
Navy Morbidity Data (1740--1741)	113	(4)
``By Consent of the People'': Riot and Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Virginia	117	(24)
Angelo T. Angelis
Royal Navy Morbidity in Early Eighteenth-Century Virginia	141	(60)
James D. Alsop
Part Four Gender: Women's Work, Religion, and Sexuality
Leah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitfull Sisters, Virginia and Mary-Land (1656)	181	(4)
John Hammond
An Act Concearning Servants That Haue Bastards (1658)	185	(2)
An Act for the Publication of Marriages (1658)	187	(2)
An Act for Punishment of Blasphemy, Fornication, Adultery, Prophane Swearing, and Cursing (1699)	189	(4)
Poetry from the Maryland Almanack	193	(8)
``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	201	(26)
Sarah Hand Meacham
Reconstructing Gender: Early Modern English Politics and Religion in the Chesapeake	227	(30)
Debra Meyers
``The Fruit of Nine, Sue kindly brought'': Colonial Enforcement of Sexual Norms in Eighteenth-Century Maryland	257	(26)
Catherine Cardno
About the Contributors	283