Plantation Management in the Chesapeake, 1620–1820

Lorena S. Walsh

The Journal of Economic History, 1989, vol. 49, issue 2, 393-406

Abstract: Over the course of two hundred years Chesapeake planters sought to make the most of scarce labor while exploiting abundant land. Large planters were able to offset a secular decline in tobacco crops per laborer with productivity gains in grains, thus maintaining or enhancing revenues per hand in constant value. Intensification of the labor process and a switch from hoe to plow culture account for most of the increase; agricultural improvements, very little.

Date: 1989
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