Author: Blair Niles
Year Published: 1945 (New Revised Edition, original 1939)
Year Printed: 1945
Date Acquired: February 7. 2015
Where Purchased: Capitol Hill Books, Washington, DC
Price Paid: $8.50
Read Status: Read (June 28, 2015)
Notes/Thoughts
- Of course, another Virginia book. I really did intend to try for a D.C. book, but I quickly spotted this book and did not look any further as this is part of the Rivers of America series that I already got The Tennessee River: Volume I from. Perhaps next visit I'll at least truly look for a D.C. book.
- Covers how "involuntary servitude" (p. 58) was not just African slaves including instances of them becoming free and owning slaves, but also English children kidnapped to be servants in the colonies. (mostly Chapter 4)
- Good detailed description of the life cycle measured in tobacco. (p. 79-83) "Planters and laborers and slaves alike lived in the rhythm of tobacco." (p. 83)
- Colonial Abbreviations (p. 116-117)
- tobo = tobacco
- hhd = hogshead
- Hble Servt. = Humble Servant
- oppy = opportunity
- Dr = Dear
- George Washington "keeping copybooks in which he set down whatever appeared to him to be desirable knowledge." (p. 120)
- Student Debt in 1800s - "It is said that the merchants of Charlottesville exploited for their own ends this new freedom for youth. They offered limitless credit; whatever the young gentlemen wanted was theirs. In due time their fathers would receive bills." (p. 227)
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