A Planters' Republic The Search for Economic

This exciting reinterpretation of the path to Revolution follows Virginia planters' attempts to break with England and shows how their grassroots effort at self-sufficiency solidified into political resistance, war, and independence.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

The Political Economy of a Tobacco Colony

1

(42)

An Imperial Crisis and the Origins of Commercial Resistance

43

(26)

Nonimportation and the Chesapeake Economy

69

(42)

``A Source of Ignorance and Vice'': The Slave Trade and Economic Development in Virginia

111

(26)

Commercial Development and the Credit Crisis of 1772

137

(36)

The Renewal of Commercial Resistance

173

(42)

Virginia and the Continental Association

215

(36)

Commercial Development in an Independent Virginia

251

(32)

Conclusion

283

(4)

Index

287

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A Planters' Republic The Search for Economic Independence in Revolutionary Virginia

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