Order and civility in the early modern Chesapeake / edited by Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyers, Debra, 1956- editor.

Perreault, Melanie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--17th century.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social conditions--17th century.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social conditions--18th century.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Economic conditions--17th century.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Economic conditions--18th century.

Economic history.

Social history.

United States--Chesapeake Bay Region.

Physical Description:

vi, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

The cutting-edge collection of chapters in this volume represents the vast array of experiences in the Chesapeake region, encompassing the racial, class, ethnic, and gender diversity that characterized life in early Maryland and Virginia. Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake makes a significant contribution to the growing interest in the Chesapeake region as an accurate indication of the English customs, rituals, and beliefs that men and women brought to the New World. Ultimately, this study suggests that the multicultural Chesapeake created significant cultural, intellectual, and social norms that have shaped the diverse world of the American people. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Chesapeake Belief Systems 11

1 Without Demons: Witchcraft, Gender, and Law in the Colonial Chesapeake / Adam Jortner Jortner, Adam 13

2 "A Witch amongst All Them": Chesapeake Witchcraft as a Case Study for Colonial North American Witchcraft Beliefs / Monica Witkowski Witkowski, Monica 33

3 "The people are not att all fond of the Litturgy or cerimonyes": Theology in the Early Chesapeake / Debra Meyers Meyers, Debra 51

II Chesapeake Legal Systems 69

4 English Law and the "Rights of Persons" in Early Maryland / Jeffrey K. Sawyer Sawyer, Jeffrey K. 71

5 "An Innate Love of Cruelty": Master Violence against Female Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia / Allison N. Madar Madar, Allison N. 91

6 Apart Before Death: Separated Women in Colonial Maryland / Karen Lubieniecki Lubieniecki, Karen 107

7 Sic jurat transcendere montes ("Thus he swears to cross the mountains"): Alexander Spotswood, Colonial and Native Diplomacy in the 1722 Albany Peace / Kristalyn Marie Shefveland Shefveland, Kristalyn Marie 135

III Chesapeake Labor Systems 153

8 "A shameful and unblessed thing": Convict Bondwomen in Eighteenth-Century Maryland / Teresa Bass Foster Foster, Teresa Bass 155

9 "A Genteel and Sensible Servant": The Commodification of African Slaves in Tidewater Virginia, 1700-1774 / Vaughn Scribner Scribner, Vaughn 173

10 "To serve longer according to law": The Chattel-Like Status of Convict Servants in Virginia / Jennie Jeppesen Jeppesen, Jennie 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739189740

0739189743

9780739189757

0739189751

OCLC:

877365341