Class, politics and historical ‘revisionism’

Gray, Robert

doi:10.1080/03071029408567904

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“…Its relatively meager production during the last decade preceding the Civil War had to do with the ravishing effects of the jointworm, a pest that threatened to compel local farmers to abandon wheat in favor of corn during that time. 10 Wheat, corn, and other small grains provided local planters with an opportunity to avoid bankruptcy; it did not, however, make many planters rich. While the insatiable demand for wheat and grains in Europe following the French Revolution may have initiated a boom in local grain exports, this trade was based almost exclusively on a wartime situation.…”

Section: The Cash Cropsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work and Slave Family Life in Antebellum Northern Virginia

Pargas

2006

Journal of Family History

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Work patterns and the nature of regional agriculture defined the world of antebellum slave families in the American South. This article examines the effects that work had on the collective experiences of slave families living in Fairfax County in northern Virginia. Specifically, this study explores the consequences of work for child rearing, family time, and the development of internal family economies among slave families. A region often overlooked by historians of the antebellum South, northern Virginia was a difficult place for slave families by any standard. As this study will show, a weak agricultural sector and small slaveholdings, combined with long workdays, forced slaves to resort to shared child rearing and offered families few opportunities to be together or to develop extensive family economies.

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Section: The Cash Cropsmentioning

confidence: 99%