Code: 04708769

Gentlemen and Freeholders

Name: Gentlemen and Freeholders
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 04708769
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by John Gilman Kolp

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
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Book synopsis

This text explores the role of elections in the public culture of Britain's most populous North American colony during the middle decades of the 18th century. In this pre-Revolutionary world, the author explains, wealthy men with stately homes, fine clothes and a genuine belief in rule by "Gentlemen of Ability and Fortune" shared the local political arena with common freeholders - small planters with 100 acres and a servant or slave to help cultivate the labour intensive tobacco crop. Gentlemen clearly ruled this society; yet they did so with the electoral support of the freeholders. How did such a system work? Many previous studies of 18th-century Virginia's local politics have portrayed a stable, consistent and uniform public culture extending from 1725 to 1815 and variously described as aristocratic, oligarchic, democratic or ritualistic. Kolp proposes a model of local political culture as shaped by regional , provincial and imperial influences but primarily conditioned by local personalities and issues. Drawing on a variety of primary sources, he reveals who ran for office, who voted and with what frequency; he explains how candidates jostled for position before running for office, how they appealed to freeholders, how public issues and private considerations influenced voter behaviour and whether levels of competition can contribute to a better understanding of social stability and unrest.