Bibliography
for Further Reading
Teacher Resources
Harris, David Golightly. Piedmont Farmer:
The Journals of David Golightly Harris 1855-1870. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
One of the few first-hand accounts of a small
farmer.
Isaac, Rhys. The Transformation of Virginia,
1740-1790. New York: Norton, 1988.
An extensive, prize-winning study of colonial
Virginia. Details the daily lives, societal roles and economic
realities of the common planter and their conflicts and interdependence
on wealthier planters.
Janney, Werner L. and Asa Moore, eds. John Jay Janney's Virginia:
An American Farm Lad's Life in the Early 19th Century. McLean,
Va.: EPM, 1978.
Culled from a series of reminiscences written
down in 1902, John Janney described the customs, schoolings and
agriculture cycles he witnessed among small farmers in 19th-century
Virginia. A richly detailed (and entertainingly idiosyncratic)
account.
Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern
Cultures 1680-1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1988.
Discusses the yeoman farmer's place in the
burgeoning tobacco economy of Virginia, which economically (and
socially) favored large plantations.
Stabler, Lois. K. 'Very Poor and of a Lo Make' : The Journal
of Abner Sanger. Portsmouth, N.H.: Historical Society of Cheshire
County, 1986.
Intriguing diary of Abner Sanger, a middling
farmer from Keene, New Hampshire in the 1770s. Sanger not only
describes life and work on his own farm but how he and his neighbors
cooperated as a community.
Tillson, Albert H. Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture
on a Virginia Frontier, 1740-1789. Lexington: University Press
of Kentucky, 1991.
Using the Revolutionary War era as a backdrop,
Gentry and Common Folk highlights the tensions between small planters
and their social "betters," as well as the social and
political pressures exerted on both.
Student Resources
Knight, James E. The Farm: Life in Colonial
Pennsylvania. New York: Troll, 1998. (Grades 2-5)
An imagining of life on a Pennsylvania farm
for both a homesteading family and indentured servants.
Smith, Carter, ed. Daily Life, A Sourcebook
on Colonial America. American Albums from the collections
of the Library of Congress. Brookfield, Connecticut: The Millbrook
Press, 1991.
(Grades 6-8)
Work and enterprise in the thirteen colonies
are presented through prints, documents and engravings. Both rural
and urban work is explored.
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