{"product_id":"motives-of-honor-pleasure-and-lorena-s-walsh-9780807832349","title":"Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763","description":"Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the \"Golden Age\" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary reason for large planters' debt was their purchase of capital assets--especially slaves--early in their careers. In the later stages of their careers, chronic indebtedness was rare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalsh's narrative incorporates stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the suffering, resistance, and occasional minor victories of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorena S. Walsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807832340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807832349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 2.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011","brand":"Lorena S. Walsh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992468881663,"sku":"9780807832349","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_faf82571-7a2b-4c15-8f53-b9127ebf0f7d.jpg?v=1683319114","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/motives-of-honor-pleasure-and-lorena-s-walsh-9780807832349","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}