Patriarchy in Peril : William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia / Dennis Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Dennis, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slaveholders--Virginia--Biography.

Slaveholders.

Plantation owners--Virginia--Biography.

Plantation owners.

Patriarchy--Virginia--History--18th century.

Patriarchy.

Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Virginia.

Byrd, William, 1674-1744.

Byrd, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2023]

Summary:

"William Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres of land and employed laborers and enslaved Africans. This book examines a neglected stage in the formation of slavery in Virginia by analyzing the practices and beliefs of one of the more prominent slave owners of the period. Byrd was perhaps the early colonial definition of a patriarch, and author Dennis Todd here grounds the concept of patriarchalism in a series of concrete practices and expectations. Doing so, Todd argues that patriarchal principles, which are often assumed to have justified slavery and to have offered a template for slave management, in fact did neither"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Here at the end of the world

Carrying the machine forward : William Byrd and his slaves

Our fellow creatures : William Byrd and slavery

In the bear latitudes.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Todd, Dennis Patriarchy in Peril

ISBN:

9781621908104

1621908100

OCLC:

1373844397