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Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland

Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland

Carr, Lois Green
Menard, Russell R.
Walsh, Lorena S.

Paperback

Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

AnthropologyColonial Period (1600-1775)

ISBN10: 0807843415
ISBN13: 9780807843413
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Published: Oct 21 1991
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.23
Language: English
In 1652 Robert Cole, an English Catholic, moved with his family and servants to St. Mary's County, Maryland. Using this family's story as a case study, the authors of Robert Cole's World provide an intimate portrait of the social and economic life of a middling planter in the seveneenth-century Chesapeake, including work routines and agricultural techniques, the upbringing of children, neighborhood relationships and community formation, and the role of religion.

The Cole Plantation account, a record that details what the plantation produced, consumed, purchased, and sold over a twelve-year period, is the only known surviving document of its kind for seventeenth-century British America. Along with Cole's will, it serves as the framework around which the authors build their analysis. Drawing on these and other records, they present Cole as an exemplar of the ordinary planter whose success created the capital base for the slave-based plantation society of the eighteenth century.

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