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Order and civility in the early modern Chesapeake / edited by Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault.
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English
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Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
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vi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
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F187.C5 O73 2014
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Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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History
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17th century
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Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
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This book is a collection of essays representing 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.--Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I.Chesapeake Belief Systems
1.Without Demons: Witchcraft, Gender, and Law in the Colonial Chesapeake / Adam Jortner
2."A Witch amongst All Them": Chesapeake Witchcraft as a Case Study for Colonial North American Witchcraft Beliefs / Monica Witkowski
3."The people are not att all fond of the Litturgy or cerimonyes": Theology in the Early Chesapeake / Debra Meyers
II.Chesapeake Legal Systems
4.English Law and the "Rights of Persons" in Early Maryland / Jeffrey K. Sawyer
5."An Innate Love of Cruelty": Master Violence against Female Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia / Allison N. Madar
6.Apart Before Death: Separated Women in Colonial Maryland / Karen Lubieniecki
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
III.Chesapeake Labor Systems
8."A shameful and unblessed thing": Convict Bondwomen in Eighteenth-Century Maryland / Teresa Bass Foster
9."A Genteel and Sensible Servant": The Commodification of African Slaves in Tidewater Virginia, 1700
1774 / Vaughn Scribner
10."To serve longer according to law": The Chattel-Like Status of Convict Servants in Virginia / Jennie Jeppesen.
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ISBN
9780739189740 ((cloth))
0739189743 ((cloth))
9780739189757 ((electronic))
0739189751 ((electronic))
LCCN
2014025197
OCLC
877365341
Other standard number
40023955436
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