Masters of violence : the plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia / Tristan Stubbs.
"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,...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Series: | Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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Norlin Library - Stacks
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E443 .S88 2018
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E443 .S88 2018 | Available Place a Hold |