The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia
were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and
foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a
demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their
uneasy relations with English agents. George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, and their contemporaries lived in a world that was
dominated by questions of debt from across an ocean but also one
that stressed personal autonomy.
T. H. Breen's study of this tobacco culture focuses on how elite
planters gave meaning to existence. He examines the value-laden
relationships--found in both the fields and marketplaces--that led
from tobacco to politics, from agrarian experience to political
protest, and finally to a break with the political and economic
system that they believed threatened both personal independence and
honor.
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