Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution., Revised Edition PDF
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TOBACCO CULTURE T". Mentality oft". Great Tidewater Plante,·s on the Eve of Revolution T. H. BREEN N~I"'f." Whh. Tobacco Culture This page intentionally left blank TOBACCO CUL TURE_/> The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution * With a new preface by the author T.R.BREEN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 1985 by Princeton University Press Publisbed by Princeton University Press, 41 TVilliam Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1S Y All Rights Reserved First paperback edition, 1987 Ninth printing, and second paperback edition, with a new prefoce, 2001 Library of Congress Catllioging-in-Publication Datil Breen, T. H. Tobacco culture: the mentality of the great Tidewater planters on the eve of revolution / T. H. Bl·een ; with a new preface by the author. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-08914-0 (alk. paper) 1. Virginia-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 2. Plantation owners-Virginia-History-18th century. 3. Plantation life-Virginia History-18th century. 4. Tobacco industry-Virginia-History-18th century. 5. Virginia-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Causes-Case studies. 6. United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Causes Case studies. I. Title. F229.B8 2001 975.5'02-dc21 2001019854 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Linotron Janson Printed on acid-free pape,·. CtO www.pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States ofA merica 9 11 13 15 17 16 14 12 10 For Susan This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix PREFACE TO THE SECOND PAPERBACK EDITION xi PREFACE XXV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XXIX I. An Agrarian Context for Radical Ideas 3 II. Tobacco Mentality 40 III. Planters and Merchants: A Kind of Friendship 84 IV. Loss of Independence 124 V. Politicizing the Discourse: Tobacco, Debt and the Coming of Revolution 160 EPILOGUE: A New Beginning 204 INDEX 211 This page intentionally left blank LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS I. William Byrd's Westover viewed from the James River (Reproduced by permission of Dementi Studio, Richmond, Virginia) 5 II. Title page from Jonathan Carver's A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant (London, 1779) (Courtesy Arents Collections, New York Public Library) 18-19 III. Map of late eighteenth-century Tidewater Virginia (Courtesy of the University of North Carolina Press and Gregg Roeber) 33 IV. Five-dollar bill printed by Hall and Sellars, 1778 (Courtesy Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Audiovisual Library) 42 V. Stages in the production of Virginia tobacco, from William Tatham, An Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture of Tobacco (London, 1800) (Courtesy Arents Collections, New York Public Library) 52 VI. Ways of transporting tobacco to the public warehouses, from .William Tatham, An Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture of Tobacco (Courtesy Arents Collections, New York Public Library) 54 VII. A Tobacco Note issued in 1743 (Courtesy Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, College of William and Mary) 63 VIII. Eighteenth-century tobacco marks from Fairfax County (Courtesy of Beth Mitchell and the Office of Heritage Resources, Fairfax County, Virginia) 66
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