Title: Class-consciousness in Colonial Williamsburg
Product review: It's Marxism for little people.There is the gentry class.Then there are the middling sort -- merchants, freedmen, tradesmen, skilled craftspeople.Then there are farmers and slaves.Seriously, the book calls you "the middling sort" over and over.Anyway, the book feels chopped-up as it compares the living conditions and fashions of these three separate groups of colonists.Perhaps it would have been easier to read if the book were separated into 3 sections: Wealthy Landowners and Gentry/Middling Townspeople/Poor or EnslavedThis book *is* well-illustrated.
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