The Old Dominion in the seventeenth century a documentary history of Virginia, 1606-1689 /
| Main Author: | Billings, Warren M., 1940- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1975]
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| Physical Description: |
xxiv, 324 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series: |
Documentary problems in early American history.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The beginnings
- The evolution of self-government in Virginia: the governor, council, and House of Burgess
- The evolution of self-government in Virginia: local government
- The structure of society
- Bound labor: the indentured servant
- Bound labor: slavery
- Tobacco and trade
- Indians and whites: the conflict of cultures
- Upheaval and rebellion
- Life in seventeenth-century Virginia
- Epilogue.