Recommended Readings, Redefining Family

Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Burnard, Trevor. Creole Gentleman: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776. London: Routledge, 2002.

Calvert, Karin. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600–1900. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. “Changing Lifestyles and Consumer Behavior in the Colonial Chesapeake.” In Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Cary Cason, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1994.

Chappell, Edward A. “Housing a Nation: The Transformation of Living Standards in Early America.” In Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1994.

Crowley, John E. The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Demos, John. Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Fields, Joseph E., ed. “Worthy Partner”: The Papers of Martha Washington. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Fithian, Philip V. Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773–1774. Edited by Hunter Dickinson Farish. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1957.

Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy. At Home: The American Family, 1750–1870. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.

Gibbs, Patricia, Anne Schone, and George Hassell. “Redefining Family.” In Cary Carson, ed. Becoming Americans: Our Struggle To Be Both Free and Equal. Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2004.

Greven, Philip. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Gundersen, Joan Rezner. “The Double Bonds of Race and Sex: Black and White Women in a Colonial Virginia Parish.” Journal of Southern History, LII (1986), pp. 351–372.

Gunderson, Joan R. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Gutman, Herbert G. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.

Hamilton, Philip. The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752-1830. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Hatley, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1989.

Horn, James. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Isaac, Rhys. Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Kierner, Cynthia A. Beyond the Household: Women’s Place in the Early South, 1700-1835. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Kulikoff, Allan. “The Origins of Domestic Patriarchy among White Families” and “Beginnings of the Afro-American Family.” In Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Kulikoff, Allen. “A ‘Prolifick’ People: Black Population Growth in the Chesapeake Colonies, 1700–1790.” Southern Studies,XVI (1977), pp. 391–428.

Kulikoff, Allen. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Lebsock, Suzanne D. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1984.

Lebsock, Suzanne. Virginia Women, 1600-1945: “A Share of Honour.” Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1987.

Lewis, Jan. The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Merritt, Jane T. At the Crossroad: Indians and Empire on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Meyers, Debra. Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives: Free Will Christian Women in Colonial Maryland. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Mintz, Steven, and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. Introduction and pp. 36–41. New York: Free Press, 1988.

Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Norton, Mary Beth. Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Pollock, Linda. A Lasting Relationship: Parents and Children over Three Centuries. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1987.

Rountree, Helen. “Sex Roles and Family Life.” Chap. 5 in Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Shammas, Carole. “Anglo-American Household Government in Comparative Perspective.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., LII (1995), pp. 104–144.

Smith, Daniel Blake. Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980.

Snyder, Terri L. Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Stanton, Luicia. Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello. [Charlottesville, Va.]: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000.

Stevenson, Brenda E. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Sturtz, Linda L. Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial America. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Walsh, Lorena S. From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. Charlottesville, Va.” University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Wolf, Stephanie Grauman. As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth-Century Americans. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.

Wood, Gordon S. “Patriarchal Dependence” and “Enlightened Paternalism.” In The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Yentsch, Anne Elizabeth. “The Face of Urban Slavery.” Chap. 9 in A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.