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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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