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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stubbs, Tristan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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Online Access:Texto completo