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In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker
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- Book Title
- In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of
- ISBN
- 9780801867255
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- In Old Virginia : Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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In 1824, John Walker purchased a 500-acre farm in King and Queen County, Virginia, and began working it with a dozen slaves. The son of a local politician and planter who grew tobacco, Walker lost status when he became a devout Methodist, raised wheat, and treated his slaves like brothers and sisters. He also kept a detailed and fascinating journal. Drawing on this forty-three-year chronicle, Claudia L. Bushman provides a richly illuminating study, a microhistory that is rewarding to read. Walker sets aside most of the "Old South planter" stereotype. He sold wheat in Baltimore and Norfolk and invested in railroad stock, and yet he grew, spun, and wove cotton for clothing, tanned leather, and made shoes. He avoided lavish creature comforts in favor of purchasing the latest farm equipment. So far from losing out to soil exhaustion, he experimented with improved farming methods, nourished his land, and kept his yields high. Walker's journal describes the legal cases he tenaciously pursued, records devotion to the local Methodist church, and explains his practice of Thomsonian medicine on slaves and family members alike. He provides insight into women's work and lays out the drama of blacks and whites living in close intimacy and constant fear. Walker humbly referred to himself as "a poor illiterate worm," but his diary dramatically captures the life of a small planter in antebellum Virginia.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801867258
ISBN-13
9780801867255
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1895823
Product Key Features
Publication Name
In Old Virginia : Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F232.T54b87 2001
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Bushman skillfully mines this rich vein of material to uncover a vivid portrait of antebellum farm life."-- Choice, This very readable book will surely become a 'must read' in agricultural history surveys both for the information it conveys and the questions it raises., "In Old Virginia is microhistory at its best -- illuminating, relevant, and highly readable. Bushman paints a vivid portrait of agrarian life in the Old South... [Her] monograph deserves a wide and attentive audience." -- Michael R. McCarthy, History, In Old Virginia is microhistory at its best-illuminating, relevant, and highly readable. Bushman paints a vivid portrait of agrarian life in the Old South... [Her] monograph deserves a wide and attentive audience., "A close and careful analysis... Walker's diary is an invaluable source for understanding the culture of antebellum Virginia and how one of the region's large grain growers adjusted to rising and falling crop prices, personal and family crises, and the Civil War... A uniquely lay-centered interpretation of the [Methodist] movement."--John Fea, Religious Studies Review, In Old Virginia is microhistory at its best -- illuminating, relevant, and highly readable. Bushman paints a vivid portrait of agrarian life in the Old South... [Her] monograph deserves a wide and attentive audience., A valuable edition on agricultural practices; at the same time, it explores aspects of rural culture that have not been the subject of sufficient study... Claudia Bushman meticulously teases out a great deal about the roles of slaves and women, ideas about health, agricultural innovation, and community structure., A close and careful analysis... Walker's diary is an invaluable source for understanding the culture of antebellum Virginia and how one of the region's large grain growers adjusted to rising and falling crop prices, personal and family crises, and the Civil War... A uniquely lay-centered interpretation of the [Methodist] movement., Claudia L. Bushman tells Walker's life story with verve and sympathy, tempered by evident distaste for the arbitrary power of the patriarch-slaveholder. Perhaps the author's most impressive accomplishment is reducing the journal entries of over forty years to a balanced and lucid account of Walker's life., Bushman skillfully mines this rich vein of material to uncover a vivid portrait of antebellum farm life., Gives us a sense of both an earnest, if only moderately successful, small planter in antebellum Virginia and a region in the midst of relative decline., "This very readable book will surely become a 'must read' in agricultural history surveys both for the information it conveys and the questions it raises."--Connie L. Lester, Agricultural History, Bushman's detailed summaries of Walker's journal are filled with revealing details of day-to-day life in this small corner of rural Virginia., "Readers will appreciate and enjoy Bushman's ingenuity and skill in crafting her study of antebellum Virginia. By comparing Walker's life and circumstances with those of his family, neighbors, and others, the author reveals important and ever-evolving social changes in southern society."--Jeremy Boggs, North Carolina Historical Review, "Gives us a sense of both an earnest, if only moderately successful, small planter in antebellum Virginia and a region in the midst of relative decline."--Peter A. Coclanis, Journal of American History, "Claudia L. Bushman tells Walker's life story with verve and sympathy, tempered by evident distaste for the arbitrary power of the patriarch-slaveholder. Perhaps the author's most impressive accomplishment is reducing the journal entries of over forty years to a balanced and lucid account of Walker's life."--Robert McColley, American Historical Review, In Old Virginia is microhistory at its best--illuminating, relevant, and highly readable. Bushman paints a vivid portrait of agrarian life in the Old South... [Her] monograph deserves a wide and attentive audience., "Bushman's detailed summaries of Walker's journal are filled with revealing details of day-to-day life in this small corner of rural Virginia."--John T. Schlotterbeck, Journal of the Early Republic, Readers will appreciate and enjoy Bushman's ingenuity and skill in crafting her study of antebellum Virginia. By comparing Walker's life and circumstances with those of his family, neighbors, and others, the author reveals important and ever-evolving social changes in southern society., "A valuable edition on agricultural practices; at the same time, it explores aspects of rural culture that have not been the subject of sufficient study... Claudia Bushman meticulously teases out a great deal about the roles of slaves and women, ideas about health, agricultural innovation, and community structure."--Ellen Eslinger, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Table of Content
Contents: Preface - ""in many respects a peculiar man"" Acknowledgments Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION ""I record this for the benefit of my children"" Chapter 2: LAND AND FAMILY ""writing off a kind of History of my ancestry"" Chapter 3: HUSBANDRY ""began to plant corn"" Chapter 4: AGRICULTURE ""an experiment to see which way will produce the best"" Chapter 5: ECONOMY ""Income fell short this year $156.371/2"" Chapter 6: MASTERY ""My Servant Jack ran away from me Wednesday"" Chapter 7: HUSWIFERY ""the first piece of cloth woven here"" Chapter 8: COMMUNITY ""the rich nabobs... make us poor people give them ease"" Chapter 9: METHODISM ""I am yet striving to get to glory"" Chapter 10: MEDICINE ""he would have been dead before this but for the Tomsonisn practice"" Chapter 11: LEGALITIES ""But for my forgiving disposition I would sue indite and prosecute him again"" Chapter 12: LOCUST GROVE ""the greatest crop of wheat ever made in Locust Grove"" Chapter 13: TWILIGHT ""thine poor insignificant helpless illiterate worm"" Chapter 14: WAR "" a most dreadfull and distressing afflicted state"" Chapter 15: CONCLUSION ""I am so reduced in circumstances"" APPENDIX A - GENEALOGICAL CHARTS APPENDIX B - THE SLAVE POPULATIONS AT CHATHAM HILL AND LOCUST GROVE NOTES INDEX, Contents: Preface - "in many respects a peculiar man" Acknowledgments Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION "I record this for the benefit of my children" Chapter 2: LAND AND FAMILY "writing off a kind of History of my ancestry" Chapter 3: HUSBANDRY "began to plant corn" Chapter 4: AGRICULTURE "an experiment to see which way will produce the best" Chapter 5: ECONOMY "Income fell short this year $156.371/2" Chapter 6: MASTERY "My Servant Jack ran away from me Wednesday" Chapter 7: HUSWIFERY "the first piece of cloth woven here" Chapter 8: COMMUNITY "the rich nabobs . . . make us poor people give them ease" Chapter 9: METHODISM "I am yet striving to get to glory" Chapter 10: MEDICINE "he would have been dead before this but for the Tomsonisn practice" Chapter 11: LEGALITIES "But for my forgiving disposition I would sue indite and prosecute him again" Chapter 12: LOCUST GROVE "the greatest crop of wheat ever made in Locust Grove" Chapter 13: TWILIGHT "thine poor insignificant helpless illiterate worm" Chapter 14: WAR " a most dreadfull and distressing afflicted state" Chapter 15: CONCLUSION "I am so reduced in circumstances" APPENDIX A - GENEALOGICAL CHARTS APPENDIX B - THE SLAVE POPULATIONS AT CHATHAM HILL AND LOCUST GROVE NOTES INDEX
Copyright Date
2002
Topic
Slavery, United States / 19th Century, Economic Conditions, General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / Rural
Lccn
00-012803
Dewey Decimal
975.5/103/092 B
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
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