Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century

By Edmund S. Morgan

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910412529
• ISBN13: 9780910412520
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

great introduction to colonial life

This brief overview of colonial life in Virginia is both entertaining and instructional. Professor Morgan draws on numerous diary entries, letters and newspaper accounts to illustrate life in Virginia. Although most of the text is in regard to families living on plantations, there is plenty of information pertaining to farmers and townspeople as well as indentured servants and slaves. Chapters include: 1) Growing Up; 2) Getting Married; 3) Servants and Slaves; and 4) Houses and Holidays.