Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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
In Two Volumes
New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON
1896
All rights reserved
Contents
[edit]Volume I
- I. Reasons for the Colonization of Virginia
- II. Aboriginal Virginia: Its Physical Character
- III. Aboriginal Virginia: Indian Economy
- IV. Agricultural Development, 1607-1624
- V. Agricultural Development, 1624-1650
- VI. Agricultural Development, 1650-1685
- VII. Agricultural Development, 1685-1700
- VIII. Acquisition of Title to Land: The Patent
- IX. System of Labor: The Servant
Volume II
- X. System of Labor: The Servant--continued
- XI. System of Labor: The Slave
- XII. Domestic Economy of the Planter
- XIII. Domestic Economy of the Planter--continued
- XIV. Relative Value of Estates
- XV. Manufactured Supplies: Foreign
- XVI. Manufactured Supplies: Foreign--continued
- XVII. Manufactured Supplies: Domestic
- XVIII. Manufactured Supplies: Domestic--continued
- XIX. Money
- XX. The Town
- XXI. Conclusion
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