Colonial Virginia: A History
- ISBN-10
- 0527187224
- ISBN-13
- 9780527187224
- Pages
- 420
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- KTO Press
- Authors
- John E. Selby, Warren M. Billings, Thad W. Tate
Description
This book looks at the the colony of Virginia and the underlying tensions and insecurities that characterized it from the beginning. This includes a work force dominated by bound laborers; planter aristocrats who had neighter the wealth nor leisure of English country squires; and increasing inequalities that produced great social and economic stratification. These uncertainties were eventually replaced by the wealth of the tabacco trade. Yet this industry forced the colony's dependence on a large unfree labor force. It also made the colony more susceptible to increasing British pressures, from creditors and Parliment alike. By the mid-eighteenth century, these tensions spurred Virginia into the Revolutionary fray, in which the colony's leaders (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and others) played a major role.
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