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Author Stubbs, Tristan, author.

Title Masters of violence : the plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia / Tristan Stubbs.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages).
text file
Series The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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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Subject Plantation overseers -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation overseers.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation life.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Stubbs, Tristan. Masters of violence. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018] 9781611178845 (DLC) 2018004872
ISBN 9781611178852 (electronic book)
1611178851 (electronic book)
9781611178845 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)