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Patriarchy in peril : William Byrd II and slavery in early Virginia

William Byrd II and slavery in early Virginia (portion title)

Todd, Dennis 1944- (author.).

Summary: "William Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres of land and employed laborers and enslaved Africans. This book examines a neglected stage in the formation of slavery in Virginia by analyzing the practices and beliefs of one of the more prominent slave owners of the period. Byrd was perhaps the early colonial definition of a patriarch, and author Dennis Todd here grounds the concept of patriarchalism in a series of concrete practices and expectations. Doing so, Todd argues that patriarchal principles, which are often assumed to have justified slavery and to have offered a template for slave management, in fact did neither"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781621908098
ISBN: 1621908097
Physical Description: print
xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-185) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Here at the end of the world -- Carrying the machine forward : William Byrd and his slaves -- Our fellow creatures : William Byrd and slavery -- In the bear latitudes.