Skip to main content alibris logo

Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia

by

Write The First Customer Review
Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia - Todd, Dennis
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

"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 ...

loading
Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia 2023, University of Tennessee Press

ISBN-13: 9781621908098

Hardcover