Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740UNC Press Books, 2003 - 291 pages Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth |
Table des matières
The Landgrab | 9 |
The Labor Switch | 55 |
Cyclical Crises 16801723 | 80 |
Conflicts Race and Class | 103 |
The Laws of Slavery | 105 |
Revolt and Response 16761740 | 135 |
Class Conflicts 17241740 | 173 |
Reactions Ideology and Religion | 195 |
The Emergence of Patriarchism 17001740 | 197 |
Baptism and Bondage 17001740 | 236 |
Foul Means Must Do What Fair Will Not | 265 |
Black Headright Patents | 269 |
St Peters Parish | 276 |
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Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 Anthony S. Parent Affichage d'extraits - 2003 |
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Page 3 - If we stop history at a given point, then there are no classes but simply a multitude of individuals with a multitude of experiences. But if we watch these men over an adequate period of social change, we observe patterns in their relationships, their ideas, and their institutions. Class is defined by men as they live their own history, and, in the end, this is its only definition.
Page xvi - Negros is the necessity of being severe. Numbers make them insolent, and then foul Means must do what fair will not. We have however nothing like the Inhumanity here that is practiced in the Islands, and God forbid we ever shoud.