Inside the Great HouseInside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth centurya pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documentsamong them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters, memoirs, and autobiographiesas well as on the insights of such disciplines as psychology, demography, and anthropology, Daniel Blake Smith examines family