Inside the Great House : : Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society / / Daniel Blake Smith.
Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century—a pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documents—among them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Sources
- Introduction
- 1. Autonomy and Affection: Parents and Children in Chesapeake Families
- 2. Sex Roles and Female Identity
- 3. Fathers and Sons: The Meaning of Deference and Duty in the Family
- 4. Vowing Protection and Obedience: Husbands and Wives in a Planter Society
- 5. Kin, Friends, and Neighbors: The Social World beyond the Family
- 6. Providing for the Living: Inheritance and the Family
- 7. Bonds of Suffering: The Family in Illness and Death
- 8. Toward a History of Early American Family Life
- Index