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Masters of violence : the plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia / Tristan Stubbs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stubbs, Tristan, author.
- Series:
- Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
- The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Southern States.
- Slavery.
- Plantation life.
- Plantation overseers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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, both of whom were superior in the management hierarchy. Stubbs's book contends that eighteenth-century overseeing is integral to understanding the development of slaveholder paternalism in the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology
- Introduction: To "treat them … inhumanly"-Overseeing in the Eighteenth Century
- - Chapter One - A "continual exercise of our Patience and Economy": The Structure of Oversight, Patriarchism, and Dependence in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia
- - Chapter Two - "Douptfull of my Diligence": Overseer Recruitment and Character Requirements
- - Chapter Three - "Nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order": Contractual Relationships between Overseers and Planters
- - Chapter Four - "Under the shadow of my own Vine &
- my own Fig-tree": Relations between Overseers and Slave Owners
- - Chapter Five - "At their uttermost perils": Relations among Overseers, Bondpeople, and Servants
- - Chapter Six - "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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781611178852
- 1611178851
- OCLC:
- 1022080821
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