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Masters of Violence : Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
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| 著者・編者 | Stubbs, Tristan, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World |
| 出版社 | (U. South Carolina Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2018 |
| ページ数 | 248 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜650-L2367 650-P5331＞ |
解説
From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of slave overseers.
In eighteenth-century North America, major slaveowners 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 eighteenth-century 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, slaveowners 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 Masters of Violence, 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 their own actions as positive and yet simultaneously distance themselves from slavery, plantation owners blamed overseers as incompetent managers and vilified them as violent brutalizers of enslaved people.
In eighteenth-century North America, major slaveowners 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 eighteenth-century 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, slaveowners 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 Masters of Violence, 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 their own actions as positive and yet simultaneously distance themselves from slavery, plantation owners blamed overseers as incompetent managers and vilified them as violent brutalizers of enslaved people.