 Out of this historiographic milieu, Allan Kulikoff produced "Tobacco and Slaves" in an attempt to synthesize the disparate interpretations and analyses with his own research of the Chesapeake.In "Tobacco and Slaves", Kulikoff states that there have been two tendencies among modern historians of the Chesapeake.Scholars either stress the importance of economic and demographic patterns of development in the 17th century or the political and cultural transformations in the 18th century.