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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Description
vi, 212 pages ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780739189740 ((cloth))
    • 0739189743 ((cloth))
    • 9780739189757 ((electronic))
    • 0739189751 ((electronic))
    LCCN
    2014025197
    OCLC
    877365341
    Other standard number
    • 40023955436
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