Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia by Tristan Stubbs

Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia

Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World

Tristan Stubbs

256 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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In the antebellum southern United States, major landowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In addition to cultivating crops, managing slaves, and dispensing punishment, overseers were expected to maximize profits through inc...

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