Contents: Preface / T. H. Breen -- Introduction: Creating Cultural Interdependencies -- I. Transferring Cultures to the New World: Expectations and Realities -- The labor problems at Jamestown, 1607-18 / Edmund S. Morgan -- The gentry of Kent in 1640 / Peter Laslett -- The English sugar islands and the founding of South Carolina / Richard S. Dunn -- Acculturation among the Gullah Negroes / William R. Bascom -- II. Culture, Race, and Labor in the Colonial South: Shifting Patterns -- The image of the Indian in the southern colonial mind / Gary B. Nash -- Unthinking decision: Enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700 / Winthrop D. Jordan -- A changing labor force and race relations in Virginia, 1660-1710 / T.H. Breen -- Black labor, white rice: Colonial Manpower and African Agricultural Skill in Early Carolina / Peter H. Wood -- The plantation world of William Byrd II / Gerald W. Mullin -- III. The Structure of Planter Society: Cohesion and Conflict -- Politics and social structure in Virginia / Bernard Bailyn -- Foundations of political power in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1720-1776 / Jack P. Greene -- Economic base and social structure: The Northern Chesapeake in the Eighteenth Century / Aubrey C. Land -- Evangelical revolt: The Nature of the Baptists' Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775 / Rhys Isaac