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Taking Possession

• Middle Plantation in 1699, by Jennifer A. Jones
• John Montour: Life of a Cultural Go-Between, by Kevin P. Kelly
• A Portrait of York County Middling Planters and Their Slaves, 1760-1775, by Kevin P. Kelly

Enslaving Virginia

• “Little Spots allow’d them”: Slave Garden Plots and Poultry Yards, by Patricia A. Gibbs
• The Newsworthy Somerset Case, by Emma L. Powers
• Slavery in John Blair’s Public and Personal Lives in 1751, by Julie Richter
• After 1723, Manumission Takes Careful Planning and Plenty of Savvy, by Linda H. Rowe
• The Burwells Move Their Slaves to the Southside, by Julie Richter
• New Findings about the Virginia Slave Trade, by Lorena S. Walsh
• A Biographical Sketch of Matthew Ashby, by Emma L. Powers
• A Portrait of York County Middling Planters and Their Slaves, 1760-1775, by Kevin P. Kelly

Buying Respectability

• Teaching Visitors about the Consumer Revolution, by Cary Carson
• ’Tis the Season!, by Emma L. Powers
• Feeding the Eighteenth-Century Town Folk, or, Whence the Beef?, by Lorena S. Walsh

Redefining Family

• Daily Schedule for a Cook in a Gentry Household, by Patricia A. Gibbs
• Daily Schedule for a Young Gentry Woman, by Patricia A. Gibbs
• Daily Schedule for an Urban Gentry Housewife, by Patricia A. Gibbs
• Women and Education in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, by Linda H. Rowe
• The Adolescence of Gentry Girls In Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia, by Cathleene B. Hellier

Choosing Revolution

• Was There an American Common Man?, by Kevin P. Kelly
• The White Loyalists of Williamsburg, by Kevin P. Kelly
• The World Turned Upside Down: Williamsburg During the War of Independence, by Kevin P. Kelly

Freeing Religion

• The Benefit of Clergy Plea, by Linda H. Rowe
• A Biographical Sketch of Dr. John de Sequeyra, by Emma L. Powers
• A Biographical Sketch of Bishop James Madison, by Emma L. Powers
• A Biographical Sketch of Gowan Pamphlet, by Linda H. Rowe
• A Biographical Sketch of Selim, by Emma L. Powers
• A Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Ann Wager, by Emma L. Powers