Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics of American Colonial History

Author: Bruce, Philip A.
Title: Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records.
Citation: New York: MacMillan and Co., 1896
Subdivision:Front Matter to vol. II
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ECONOMIC HISTORY

OF

VIRGINIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY

AN INQUIRY INTO THE MATERIAL CONDITION OF
THE PEOPLE, BASED UPON ORIGINAL AND
CONTEMPORANEOUS RECORDS

BY

PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE

AUTHOR OF “THE PLANTATION NEGRO AS A FREEMAN,” AND CORRESPONDING
SECRETARY OF THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY



VOLUME II.

New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON

1896

All rights reserved

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.
PAGE
SYSTEM OF LABOR: THE SERVANT — continued 1
CHAPTER XI.
SYSTEM OF LABOR: THE SLAVE 57
CHAPTER XII.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY OF THE PLANTER 131
CHAPTER XIII.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY OF THE PLANTER — continued. 197
CHAPTER XIV.
RELATIVE VALUE OF ESTATES242
CHAPTER XV.
MANUFACTURED SUPPLIES: FOREIGN 258
CHAPTER XVI.
MANUFACTURED SUPPLIES: FOREIGN — continued331

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CHAPTER XVII.
PAGE
MANUFACTURED SUPPLIES: DOMESTIC 392
CHAPTER XVIII.
MANUFACTURED SUPPLIES: DOMESTIC — continued. 672
CHAPTER XIX.
MONEY 495
CHAPTER XX.
THE TOWN 522
CHAPTER XXI.
CONCLUSION 566
INDEX581

Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics of American Colonial History