Patriarchy in Peril

Patriarchy in Peril
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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9781621908098
ISBN-13 : 1621908097
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Book Synopsis Patriarchy in Peril by : Dennis Todd

Download or read book Patriarchy in Peril written by Dennis Todd and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 so, Todd argues that patriarchal principles, which are often assumed to have justified slavery and to have offered a template for slave management, in fact did neither"--


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