![]() ![]() Kathleen Brown now adds gender to the grounds of white male, and above all of planter power in eighteenth-century Virginia. In 1975, in a book which has left an indelible imprint, Edmund Morgan portrayed the implicit bargain by which slavery and its attendant ideology became the ground for a relative peace between the various classes of white males contending for power in colonial Virginia. ![]() Together these two books provide the formative context of class, race, and gender within which we must now read such other synthetic works as Rhys Issac's The Transformation of Virginia and Alan Kulikoff's Tobacco and Slaves. Morgan's American Slavery, American Freedom, Kathleen Brown's Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Sometimes it takes two books to tell a story, and to tell the story of colonial Virginia it takes three or even four. APA style: Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs.Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs." Retrieved from MLA style: "Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs." The Free Library. ![]()
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