Laura R Sandy

The Overseers of Early American Slavery

Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Overseers were crucial to the management of early American plantations, and defy easy categorisation: rogues and gentlemen, farmers and artisans, free and unfree. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781032237077
• ISBN-10: 1032237074
• Artikelnr.: 62951648

Autorenporträt

Laura R. Sandy is a lecturer in American history at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. One Plantation World: Overseers and Plantation Management in Eighteenth-Century Virginia and South Carolina 2. "But Where Shall We Find a Careful Overseer?": Recruitment and Duties 3. The Overseeing Class? Status
Skill
and Experience 4. "Respecting Wages & Privileges": Contracts
Terms and Conditions 5. "Unmerciful Overseers" and Conflicts of Power: Violence
Defiance
and the Practice of Authority 6. A "Good Overseer" and an "Excellent Leader": Enslaved Overseers and the Plantation Enterprise 7. "Clever Active" Women and "Mad Bitches": Overseeing Wives and Female Supervisors of Slavery 8. "The Tyranny and Villainy of Overseers": Slavery
Overseers
and the American Revolution 9. Professionals
Pragmatists
and "Horrid Hellish Rogues": Challenges
Opportunities
and Prospects of Overseeing. Conclusion: Overseers Reassessed