Inside the Great House Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society |
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Author:
| Smith, Daniel Blake |
ISBN: | 978-0-8014-9380-5 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1986 |
Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $34.95 |
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...