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Title:
Masters of violence : the plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia / Tristan Stubbs.
Author:
Stubbs, Tristan, author.
Publication Information:
Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]

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Call Number:
E443 .S88 2018
Abstract:
"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.
ISBN:
9781611178845
Series:
The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
Physical Description:
xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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