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The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise

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Laura Sandy’s new book aims to upend the stereotype of the overseer on southern plantations, one of a violent and largely unskilled man drawn from the lowest white social class.… Click to show full abstract

Laura Sandy’s new book aims to upend the stereotype of the overseer on southern plantations, one of a violent and largely unskilled man drawn from the lowest white social class. Instead, Sandy pres...

Keywords: enslaved labourers; american slavery; overseers early; supervisors enslaved; early american; slavery supervisors

Journal Title: American Nineteenth Century History
Year Published: 2020

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