Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
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Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer Bassett (1867-1928, ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer, as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Southern Plantation Overseer As Revealed in His Letters
Author: John S. BassettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781261524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Arnt I a Woman
Author: Deborah Gray WhitePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This new edition reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives.
Race Unequals
Author: Teri A. McMurtry-ChubbPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498599079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in shades of White male identity. Through an examination of employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic White male identity in the antebellum South. It considers how race provided White men access to the land and enslaved labor that were foundational to the plantation economy, but how the wealthiest of those men used contracts, public law, and plantation management schemes to limit the access points by which overseers, the first managerial class in the United States, could achieve upward mobility as both White people and as men. In navigating the legal and social parameters of their employment contracts, overseers negotiated a white masculinity that formed their managerial identity. This managerial identity carried the imprint of white supremacy necessary to preserve inequities on the plantation, and perhaps in our modern workplaces as well.
Masters of Violence
Author: Tristan StubbsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611178851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people during the eighteenth century. 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 increased productivity—often achieved through violence and cruelty. In Masters of Violence, Tristan Stubbs offers the first book-length examination of the overseers—from recruitment and dismissal to their relationships with landowners and enslaved people, as well as their changing reputations, which devolved from reliable to untrustworthy and incompetent. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, slave owners regarded overseers as reliable enforcers of authority; by the end of the century, particularly after the American Revolution, plantation owners viewed them as incompetent and morally degenerate, as well as a threat to their power. Through a careful reading of plantation records, diaries, contemporary newspaper articles, and many other sources, Stubbs uncovers the ideological shift responsible for tarnishing overseers’ reputations. In this book, Stubbs argues that this shift in opinion grew out of far-reaching ideological and structural transformations to slave societies in Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia throughout the Revolutionary era. Seeking to portray slavery as positive and yet simultaneously distance themselves from it, plantation owners blamed overseers as incompetent managers and vilified them as violent brutalizers of enslaved people. “A solid work of scholarship, and even specialists in the field of colonial slavery will derive considerable benefit from reading it.” —Journal of Southern History “A major achievement, restoring the issue of class to societies riven by racial conflict.” —Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne “Based on a detailed reading of overseers’ letters and diaries, plantation journals, employer’s letters, and newspapers, Tristan Stubbs has traced the evolution of the position of the overseer from the colonial planter’s partner to his most despised employee. This deeply researched volume helps to reframe our understanding of class in the colonial and antebellum South.” —Tim Lockley, University of Warwick
The Overseers of Early American Slavery
Author: Laura R. SandyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000048969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
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 categorisation. 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 labourers, 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.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Author: Ted OwnbyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496811593
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1461
Book Description
The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
