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The History of Colonial Virginia: Planters by Thomas J. Wertenbaker Pdf
This is a historical account on formation of Virginian aristocracy. The author deals with the genesis of colonial landowners who managed to make a fortune in a relatively short period of time thanks to cheap land and slave work-power. Contents England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas J. Wertenbaker Pdf
The Planters of Colonial Virginia is a historical account on formation of Virginian aristocracy. The author deals with the genesis of colonial landowners who managed to make a fortune in a relatively short period of time thanks to cheap land and slave work-power. Contents England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Wertenbaker Pdf
"America since the days of Captain John Smith has been the land of hope for multitudes in Europe. In many an humble home, perhaps in some English village, or an Ulster farm, or in the Rhine valley, one might find a family assembled for the reading of a letter from son, or brother, or friend, who had made the great venture of going to the New World. "Land is abundant here and cheap," the letter would state. "Wages are high, food is plentiful, farmers live better than lords. If one will work only five days a week one can live grandly." "In pamphlets intended to encourage immigration the opportunities for advancement were set forth in glowing colors. In Virginia alone, it was stated, in 1649, there were "of kine, oxen, bulls, calves, twenty thousand, large and good." In Virginia, as in other colonies, it was the cheapness of land and the dearness of labor which gave the newcomer his chance to rise. The rich man might possess many thousands of acres, but they would profit him nothing unless he could find the labor to put them under cultivation. Indentured workers met his needs in part, but they were expensive, hard to acquire, and served for only four years. "Thus the so-called servants who had completed their terms and men who had come over as freemen found it easy to earn enough to buy small plantations of their own. That thousands did so is shown by the Rent Roll which is published as an appendix to this book. One has only to glance at it to see that the large plantations are vastly outnumbered by the small farms of the yeomen. It proves that Virginia at the beginning of the eighteenth century was but of a numerous, prosperous middle class. Owning plantations of from fifty to five hundred acres, cultivating their fields of tobacco, their patches of Indian corn and wheat, their vegetable gardens and orchards with their own labor or the labor of their sons, the yeomen enjoyed a sense of independence and dignity. "As the small farmer, after the day's work was over, sat before his cottage smoking his long clay pipe, he could reflect that for him the country had fulfilled its promise. But he frowned as he thought of the slave ship which had come into the nearby river, and landed a group of Negroes who were all bought by his wealthy neighbors. If Virginia were flooded with slaves, would it not cheapen production and lower the price of tobacco? "The event fully justified these fears. The yeoman class in Virginia was doomed. In the face of the oncoming tide they had three alternatives--to save enough money to buy a slave or two, to leave the country, or to sink into poverty. It was the acquiring of a few slaves by the small planter which saved the middle class. Before the end of the colonial period a full fifty per cent. of the slaveholders had from one to five only. Seventy-five per cent. had less than ten. The small farmer, as he led his newly acquired slaves from the auction block to his plantation may have regretted that self-preservation had forced him to depend on their labor rather than his own. But he could see all around him the fate of those who had no slaves, as they became "poor white trash." And he must have looked on with pity as a neighbor gathered up his meager belongings and, deserting his little plantation, set out for the remote frontier. "It was one of the great crimes of history, this undermining of the yeoman class by the importation of slaves. The wrong done to the Negro himself has been universally condemned; the wrong done the white man has attracted less attention. It effectively deprived him of his American birthright--the high return for his labor. It transformed Virginia and the South from a land of hard working, self-respecting, independent yeomen, to a land of slaves and slaveholders."
PLANTERS OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA by Thomas Jefferson 1879-1966 Wertenbaker Pdf
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Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson 1879- [ Wertenbaker Pdf
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PLANTERS OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA by Thomas Jefferson 1879 Wertenbaker Pdf
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The Planters of Colonial Virginia (Classic Reprint) by Thomas J. Wertenbaker Pdf
Excerpt from The Planters of Colonial Virginia At the beginning of the Seventeenth century colonial expansion had become for England an economic necessity. Because of the depletion of her forests, which constituted perhaps the most important of her natural resources, she could no longer look for prosperity from the old industries that for centuries had been her mainstay. In the days when the Norman conquerors first set foot upon English soil the virgin woods, broken occasionally by fields and villages, had stretched in dense formation from the Scottish border to Sussex and Devonshire. But with the passage of five centuries a great change had been wrought. The growing population, the expansion of agriculture, the increasing use of wood for fuel, for shipbuilding, and for the construction of houses, had by the end of the Tudor period so denuded the forests that they no longer sufficed for the most pressing needs of the country. Even at the present day it is universally recognized that a certain proportion of wooded land is essential to the prosperity and productivity of any country. And whenever this is lacking, not only do the building, furniture, paper and other industries suffer, but the rainfall proves insufficient, spring floods are frequent and the fertility of the soil is impaired by washing. These misfortunes are slight, however, compared with the disastrous results of the gradual thinning out of the forests of Elizabethan England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
History of the Colonial Virginia (3 Volumes Edition) by Thomas J. Wertenbaker Pdf
History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. Contents Patrician and Plebeian The Aristocracy The Middle Class Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period The Planters of Colonial Virginia England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
Scholars and arm-chair historians of eighteenth-century America will take great pleasure in reading this exceptionally well-researched slice of colonial history. In The Baylors of Newmarket, author Thomas Katheder has meticulously researched one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent yet least known families in colonial Virginia. Drawing on mostly unpublished sources, including British and French archives and Virginia court documents, The Baylors of Newmarket is the fascinating and tragic story of Col. John Baylor III and his son John IV, including Col. Baylor's relentless pursuit of equine perfection and his son's delusional quest for the perfect Virginia mansion. The Baylors of Newmarket places the family in the larger context of a pre-Revolutionary Anglo-Virginian elite that sought to emulate the British gentry in culture, education, books and reading, dress, furnishings, and behavior. After the Revolution, the Baylors struggled to maintain what was becoming an increasingly outmoded lifestyle. This extensively referenced history also describes in rich detail the library begun by Col. Baylor III and expanded by his son John IV within the context of a strong book culture among the pre-Revolutionary Virginia gentry that has been largely underappreciated by scholars.
The History of the Colonial Virginia (Book 1-3) by Thomas J. Wertenbaker Pdf
History of the Colonial Virginia is a three volume series dealing with the pre revolutionary Virginia. This series provides one of the best historical reviews of British rule in the New World and the life of colonial aristocracy. Contents Patrician and Plebeian The Aristocracy The Middle Class Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 The Founding of Virginia The Establishment of Representative Government The Expulsion of Sir John Harvey Governor Berkeley and the Commonwealth The Causes of Bacon's Rebellion Bacon's Rebellion The Period of Confusion The Critical Period The Planters of Colonial Virginia England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
