Robert Cole's World

Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland

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Lorena S. Walsh

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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

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In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Using this family's story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole's World provide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake, including work routines and agricultural techniques, the upbringing of children, neighborhood relationships and community formation, and the role of religion. The Cole Plantation account, a record that details what the plantation produced, consumed, purchased, and sold over a twelve-year period, is the only known surviving document of its kind for seventeenth-century British America. Along with Cole's will, it serves as the framework around which the authors build their analysis. Drawing on these and other records, they present Cole as an exemplar of the ordinary planter whose success created the capital base for the slave-based plantation society of the eighteenth century.

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Lois Green Carr, a historian with the Historic St. Mary's City Commission, is coeditor of Colonial Chesapeake Society.|Russell R. Menard, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, is coauthor of The Economy of British America, 1607-1789.|0

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October 30th, 1991

Author

Lorena S. Walsh

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General (US: Trade)

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New edition

Pages

384

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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

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156x235x26

ISBN-13

9780807843413

Product ID

3881831

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