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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Colonial Virginia"”.
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MARKETS AND MERCHANTS: ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA, 1700-1775
… the literature detailing the intricacies of the colonial tobacco trade is extensive, and often quite persuasive, its conclusion that Virginia's economy began and ended in the production of tobacco is misleading. Virginia's expansion into previously unsettled lands, and the tremendous increase in …
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The Evolution of Gentility in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial Virginia
… in England and the origins of Virginia's landed class.
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Bound in Bermuda and Virginia: the First Century of Slave Laws and Customs
… looks at the differing early slave societies of colonial Virginia and Bermuda. Specifically, this study looks at how the first century of slave laws and customs in the respective colonies varied so greatly. Relatively speaking, slave laws and customs in colonial Virginia were harsh when compared …
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Dead Virginians: The Corpse and its uses in Early Virginia
The thesis traces the history of colonial Virginia in an attempt to uncover the origins of several peculiarities in Virginia death-ways. Elite Virginians buried at home more often than not (where they could protect the dead from animal desecration), while avoided death’s heads, reapers, and bone …
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"Freedom Wears a Cap": The Law, Liberty, and Opportunity for British Convict Servants in Virginia, 1718-1788
… This thesis argues that the legislative body of Virginia initially responded by passing legislation intended to limit the dangers presented by the introduction of convict servants into the colony. However, the significant demand for labor in Virginia resulted in the colony receiving a substantial …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
… translation enriches our comprehension of the colonial past by illuminating Indigenous voices and transatlantic networks of knowledge production. My thesis covers four regions along the eastern seaboard of North America. The first chapter focuses on encounters in the early years of colonial …
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
… credentials to serve as a surveyor in colonial Virginia, and Abraham Lincoln would later receive his first political appointment as a surveyor in Illinois. As the century proceeded, the surveyor facilitated the distribution of public lands to a citizenry eager to participate in the …
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‘Heathenism’ in the Protestant Atlantic World, c. 1558 - c. 1700
… in historical, polemical, devotional, and colonial contexts in order to reinforce and reconfigure the relationship between the predestinarian framework of salvation, the postlapsarian condition of human beings, and the boundaries of the true church. Imbued with interconnected theological, …
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The development of schooling in Floyd County, Virginia 1831-1900
… schooling in Floyd County, located in southwest Virginia, from its formation in 1831 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Floyd County was formed in 1831 during Virginia's quasi-system of education. This quasi-system was created due to the "peopling" of early Virginia. Colonial Virginia …
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The Devil in Virginia: Fear in Colonial Jamestown, 1607-1622
… system transplanted by the first settlers to Virginia helps explain the hardships the English encountered in the New World, as well as influencing English perceptions of self and other. Out of this transplanted Protestantism emerged a discourse of fear that revolved around the agency of the …