Masters of Violence - The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenthcentury Virginia, South

In eighteenth-century North America, major slaveowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In this book, Tristan Stubbs offers the first book-length examination of eighteenth-century overseers - from recruitment and dismissal to their relationships with landowners and enslaved people, as well as their changing reputations.

About the author

Tristan Stubbs is an affiliate faculty member of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston. He previously held appointments with the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex. Stubbs was the Gilder Lehrman Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Virginia Historical Society, and the Lewis P. Jones Visiting Fellow at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

Summary

In eighteenth-century North America, major slaveowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In this book, Tristan Stubbs offers the first book-length examination of eighteenth-century overseers - from recruitment and dismissal to their relationships with landowners and enslaved people, as well as their changing reputations.

Product details

• Authors: Tristan Stubbs
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781611178845
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-884-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Carolina Lowcountry and the At; The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World; Carolina Lowcountry and the At
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries