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The Jeffersons At Shadwell: The Social And Material World Of A Virginia Family, Susan A. Kern
The Jeffersons At Shadwell: The Social And Material World Of A Virginia Family, Susan A. Kern
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From the 1730s through the 1770s Shadwell was home to Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children, over sixty slaves owned by them, and numerous hired workers. Archaeological and documentary evidence reveals much about Thomas Jefferson's boyhood home. Shadwell was a well-appointed gentry house at the center of a highly structured plantation landscape during a period of Piedmont settlement that scholars have traditionally classified as frontier. Yet the Jeffersons accommodated in their house, landscape, material goods, and behaviors the most up-to-date expectations of Virginia's elite tidewater culture. The material remnants of Shadwell raise questions about the character of this frontier …
All Sorts Of China Ware Large, Noble And Rich Chinese Bowls: Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain In Virginia, David Andrew Madsen
All Sorts Of China Ware Large, Noble And Rich Chinese Bowls: Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain In Virginia, David Andrew Madsen
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"I Would Not Begrudge To Give A Few Pounds More": Elite Consumer Choices In The Chesapeake, 1720-1785 The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage, Steven Edward Patrick
"I Would Not Begrudge To Give A Few Pounds More": Elite Consumer Choices In The Chesapeake, 1720-1785 The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage, Steven Edward Patrick
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Morphological Variability In Late Seventeenth And Early Eighteenth-Century English Wine Bottles, William E. Pittman
Morphological Variability In Late Seventeenth And Early Eighteenth-Century English Wine Bottles, William E. Pittman
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Ceramics From The Franklin Glassworks: Acquisition Patterns And Economic Stress, Meredith Campbell Moodey
Ceramics From The Franklin Glassworks: Acquisition Patterns And Economic Stress, Meredith Campbell Moodey
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Colonial Dining Equipage And Furnishings As Revealed In Isle Of Wight County Records, 1743-1752, Mary Lee Glenn
Colonial Dining Equipage And Furnishings As Revealed In Isle Of Wight County Records, 1743-1752, Mary Lee Glenn
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