...J. Elliott Russo Abstract The uses of enslaved labor outside the context of staple crop production become evident through an examination of colonial Somerset County, the southernmost Maryland county on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. By the early eighteenth century, conditions in Somerset...

..., women's opportunities continued to be visible and viable. In the 1860s, women in Durham, Northumbria, Cumberland, and Westmoreland made three times as much as their counterparts in Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, and Somerset. In the East Riding of Yorkshire, young women worked on yearly contracts as laborers...

... of Weeds by Sodium and Calcium Chlorates," 1-3. 15 H. C. D. Somerset , Littledene: Patterns of Change (Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1974 ), 137 16 Colin McGeorge , "School Attendance and Child Labour, 1890 -1914," Historical News , 46 : 17...

... and viable. In the 1860s, women in Durham, Northumbria, Cumberland, and Westmoreland made three times as much as their counterparts in Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, and Somerset. In the East Riding of Yorkshire, young women worked on yearly contracts as laborers, tackling tough jobs inside and out. Not all...

.... See H. C. D. Somerset, Littledene: Patterns of Change (Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1974), 29-30. In this New Zealand equivalent of such American sociological classics as Middletown , local farmers around the Oxford area in North Canterbury made it clear to Somerset...

... Report to the Legislature of the State of New-Hampshire on the Culture of Silk ( Concord, NH : np , 1830 ), 13 – 15 ; Isaac D. Jones et al., Memorial of a Committee of the Citizens of Somerset County, Asking a Bounty on the Domestic Production of Silk ( Annapolis : William M'Neir , 1839...

..., the Taunton and West Somerset Labourer's Friend Society carefully explained that they "wish it to be kept in mind that this [i.e., the letting of allotments] is not to be considered in the light of charity, but sim? ply for the promotion of industrious habits among the labouring classes, and affording them...

...." [The Esdorpen Landscape in Drenthe: A Historical-Geographical Study: The Most Important Re- sults.] Wageningen University (The Netherlands), 2003. Tall, Janet. "The Effects of the Agricultural Depression on the Rural Community in Somerset." University of Lancaster (England), 2004. Tikhonova, A. V. "Peasant...

... Kristin Van Tassel, "Nineteenth-Century American Antebellum Literature: The Yeoman Becomes a Country Bumpkin," American Studies 43 (Spring 2002): 51–73. 4 Paul Cloke and Owain Jones, "Dwelling, Place, and Landscape: An Orchard in Somerset," Environmental and Planning A 33 (Apr. 2001): 650–51 Owain...