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Masters of Violence : The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia /

"The overseer performed a role of singular importance to the plantation economies of the eighteenth-century South. Ultimately the responsibility for a profitable return on his employer's investment in land and human property fell to him, ahead of the estate steward or planter's agent,...

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Autor principal: Stubbs, Tristan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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490 0 |a The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world 
505 0 |a A note on terminology -- Introduction To "treat them ... inhumanly" -- overseeing in the eighteenth century -- A "continual exercise of our patience and economy" : the structure of oversight, patriarchism, and dependence in pre-Revolutionary Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia -- "Douptfull of my Diligence" : overseer recruitment and character requirements -- "Nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order" : contractual relationships between overseers and planters -- "Under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree" : relations between overseers and slave owners -- "At their uttermost perils" : relations among overseers, bondpeople, and servants -- "Insurgents ... disappointed in their villainous Stratagems" : plantation overseeing during the American Revolutionary War -- Epilogue "Little better ... than human brutes" : The consolidation of anti-overseer stereotypes. 
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