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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.