Contents
MAP: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
Acknowledgments
Preface to the second edition
BOOK I: THE PROMISED LAND
1. DREAMS OF LIBERATION
2. THE LOST COLONY
3. IDLE INDIAN AND LAZY ENGLISHMAN
4. THE JAMESTOWN FIASCO
5. THE PERSISTENT VISION
6. BOOM
BOOK II: A NEW DEAL
7. SETTLING DOWN
8. LIVING WITH DEATH
9. THE TROUBLE WITH TOBACCO
10. A GOLDEN FLEECING
BOOK III: THE VOLATILE SOCIETY
11. THE LOSERS
12. DISCONTENT
13. REBELLION
14. STATUS QUO
BOOK IV: SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
15. TOWARD SLAVERY
16. TOWARD RACISM
17. TOWARD POPULISM
18. TOWARD THE REPUBLIC
Footnote Abbreviations
APPENDIX: Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
A Note on the Sources
Index