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Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion (Paperback)
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Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old
Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was
transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It
focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes
the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's
postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the
traditional characteristics of land tenure became subverted by the
dynamic contractual relations of a commercial economy and assesses
the political consequences of the law reforms that were
necessitated by these developments. Nineteenth-century reforms
seeking to reconcile the common law with modern commercial
practices embraced new democratic expressions about the economic
and political power of labor, and thereby encouraged the idea that
slavery was an essential element in sustaining republican
government in Virginia. By the 1850s, the ownership of human
property had replaced the ownership of land as the distinguishing
basis for political power, with tragic consequences for the Old
Dominion.
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