Reviewed by Laura Croghan Kamoie | Book Review | The William and Mary Quarterly, 61.3

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The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752–1830. By Phillip Hamilton. Jeffersonian America Series. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 250.$35.00.)

Reviewed by Laura Croghan Kamoie , American University

By the 1780s, Virginia's planter class had suffered economic decline and even outright economic disaster. By the 1790s, planters' position, status, and authority were declining. By 1800, only a few estates in either the tidewater or piedmont were prospering, and most estates were wasteful, sloppy, and had low yields. By the 1810s, the kinship bonds that had once unified and strengthened the planter class had largely collapsed. By 1820, the collapse of these kinship networks contributed to making Virginia's elite rigidly conservative, somewhat embittered, disillusioned with the Revolutionary experiment, and nostalgic for the past. The War of 1812, in particular, had seemed to build on changes in the post-Revolutionary period to create "within Virginians a particularly nascent sectionalism based on a vision of a morally superior South struggling to preserve national unity in the face of a grasping and selfish North" (p. 156).

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