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

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...

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Main Author: Stubbs, Tristan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: E443 .S88 2018
 
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