The overseers of early American slavery : supervisors, enslaved labourers, and the plantation enterprise /
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorization. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farm...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Series: | Routledge advances in American history ;
17. |
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| Summary: | Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorization. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved laborers, as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-382) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367419646 0367419645 |