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In Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives leading scholars offer interdisciplinary revisionist essays on the political, cultural and social history of early Maryland and Virginia, calling special attention to the importance of power relations, reproductive politics, and identity politics in the shaping of the area. Using primary documents, which are included with the essays, this collection suggests that the multicultural Chesapeake created significant cultural, intellectual, and social norms that shaped the diverse world of the American people. This anthology uses these perspectives to represent the multitude of experiences in the region, and in doing so captures the essence of race, class, and ethnic and gender diversity that made up life in early Chesapeake Maryland and Virginia. Students and scholars in American history, as well as anthropology, will find this book essential in understanding the political history of the colonial Chesapeake area.
Debra Meyers is associate professor of history at Northern Kentucky University. Melanie Perreault is associate professor of history at Salisbury University.
Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Memory: Colonial Narrative and Ethnic IdentityChapter 3 Juan Rogel's letter to Francis Borgia (1572) andEdward Waterhouse's "A Declaration of the State of the Colony and . . . a Relation of the Barbarous Massacre" (1622)Chapter 4 The Creation of Ajacan's Martyrs: Employing a New Analytical Technique on Early Colonial Chesapeake NarrativesChapter 5 "We Washed Not the Ground With Their Bloods": Intercultural Violence and Identity in the Early ChesapeakePart 6 Race: Family and Memory of the EnslavedChapter 7 Harford County Census — excerpt (1776) and "Act for the Encourageing the Importacon of Negroes and Slaues" (1671)Chapter 8 The Black Family in the Chesapeake: New Evidence, New PerspectivesChapter 9 "To Swear Him Free": Ethnic Memory and Social Capital in Eighteenth- Century Chesapeake Freedom PetitionsPart 10 Class: Rebel Reformers and Sick SailorsChapter 11 Nathaniel Bacon's "Declaration of the People, against Sir William Berkeley, and Present Governors of Virginia" (1676) and Navy Morbidity Data (1740-1741)Chapter 12 "By Consent of the People": Riot and Regulation in Seventeenth-Century VirginiaChapter 13 Royal Navy Morbidity in Early Eighteenth-Century VirginiaPart 14 Gender: Women's Work, Religion, and SexualityChapter 15 John Hammond's "Leah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitfull sisters, Virginia and Mary-Land" (1656), "An Act Concearning Servants that haue Bastards" (1658),"An Act for the Publication of Marriages" (1658),"An Act for Punishment of BlaspheChapter 16 "They Will be Adjudged by Their Drinke, What Kind of Housewives They Are": Gender, Technology, and Household Cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760Chapter 17 Reconstructing Gender: Early Modern English Politics and Religion in the ChesapeakeChapter 18 "The Fruit of Nine, Sue kindly brought": Colonial Enforcement of Sexual Norms in Eighteenth-Century Maryland