Inside the Great House Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society |
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| Author:
| Smith, Daniel Blake |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-1313-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1980 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $56.95 |
Book Description:
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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, memoirs, and autobiographies--as well as on the...
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, memoirs, and autobiographies--as well as on the...