Copyright 2022 James LaFond

a Crackpot Book

Lynn Lockhart Publisher

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Dust Cover

In 2013, researching a science-fiction saga, pulp novelist James LaFond began investigating the living conditions of the American laboring class prior to 1776, using primary source documents from the period rarely utilized by academic historians. In Plantation America, the focus is on the planter’s view of American servitude and on the little-studied Plantation of Mary-Land, overlooked in many general histories despite a wealth of primary sources.

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To The Reader

This entire work was written as a preamble to In This New Israel, as context for that study’s focus on New England and Congregationalist Planting and Colonizing patterns. I have endeavored to summarize redundant sources.

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Plantation America Omnibus

The series as it exists in September 2022 is listed below. Of the 16 the author has completed at this time, he rates them in quality from 1 being the best work to 16 being the least work, with a number in brackets to the left.

In Print, Unedited

-1. Stillbirth of a Nation, a history [12]

-2. America in Chains, a history [13]

-3. Into Wicked Company, a history [14]

-4. A Bright Shining Lie at Dusk, a history [16]

-5. So His Master May Have Him Again, a history [11]

-6. So Her Master May Have Her Again, a history [10]

-7. The Lies That Bind Us, a history [15]

In Print and Edited

-8. The Greatest Lie Ever Sold, a history [2]

-9. Cracker-Boy, a history [1]

-10. Orphan Nation, a report [5]

-11. Advent American, a history [3]

-12. Sold, a novel [4]

Unpublished, in Editorial Process

-13. Search For an American Spartacus, a history [7]

-14. In These Goings Down, a history [9]

-15. Cox & Swain, a novel & appended history [6]

-16. Plantation American, a history [8]

Being Researched and Written

-17. In This New Israel

-18. Ye Scum of the Country

-19. Bound, a novel

-20. Ditcher, a novel

-21. American Slaves

-22. Index American, the series guide

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Dedicated to the lost memory of Moses Roper

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“Mary-Land (I must confess) cannot boast of her plenty of Sheep here, as other Countries; not but that they will thrive and increase here, as well as in any place of the World besides, but few desire them, because they commonly draw down the Wolves among the Plantations, as well by the sweetness of their flesh, as by the humility of their nature, in not making a defensive resistance against the rough dealing of a ravenous Enemy.

-George Alsop, 1665

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Scheme of Inquiry

Prologue

European Perspectives on American

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Part 1

Plantation Maryland: A Planter’s View, 1600s

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Part 2

Tribal America: The Native View

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Part 3

Plantation America: The Slave’s View

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Epilogue

Legacy America: The Postmodern View