Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in EighteenthCentury Chesapeake Society,New

Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in EighteenthCentury Chesapeake Society,New

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Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth centurya pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documentsamong them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters, memoirs, and autobiographiesas well as on the insights of such disciplines as psychology, demography, and anthropology, Daniel Blake Smith examines family values and behavior in a plantation society. Focusing on the emotional texture of the household, he probes deeply into personal values and relationships within the family and the surrounding circle of kin. Childrearing practices, malefemale relationships, attitudes toward courtship and marriage, fatherson ties, the character and influence of kinship, familial responses to illness and death, and the importance of inheritanceall receive extended treatment. A striking pattern of change emerges from this mosaic of life in the colonial South. What had once been a patriarchal, authoritarian, and emotionally restrained family environment altered profoundly during the latter half of the eighteenth century. The personal documents cited by Smith clearly point to the development after 1750 of a more intimate, childcentered family life characterized by close emotional bonds and by growing autonomyespecially for sonsin matters of marriage and career choice. Welltodo planter families inculcated in their children a strong measure of selfconfidence and independence, as well as an abiding affection for their family society. Smith shows that Americans in the North as well as in the South were developing an altered view of the family and the world beyond ita perspective which emphasized a warm and autonomous existence. This fascinating study will convince its readers that the history of the American family is intimately connected with the dramatic changes in the lives of these planter families of the eighteenthcentury Chesapeake.

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