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A note on terminology
Introduction To "treat them . . . inhumanly" - overseeing in the eighteenth century
A "continual exercise of our patience and economy" : the structure of oversight, patriarchism, and dependence in pre-Revolutionary Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia
"Douptfull of my Diligence" : overseer recruitment and character requirements
"Nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order" : contractual relationships between overseers and planters
"Under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree" : relations between overseers and slave owners
"At their uttermost perils" : relations among overseers, bondpeople, and servants
"Insurgents . . . disappointed in their villainous Stratagems" : plantation overseeing during the American Revolutionary War
Epilogue "Little better . . . than human brutes" : The consolidation of anti-overseer stereotypes.
Introduction To "treat them . . . inhumanly" - overseeing in the eighteenth century
A "continual exercise of our patience and economy" : the structure of oversight, patriarchism, and dependence in pre-Revolutionary Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia
"Douptfull of my Diligence" : overseer recruitment and character requirements
"Nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order" : contractual relationships between overseers and planters
"Under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree" : relations between overseers and slave owners
"At their uttermost perils" : relations among overseers, bondpeople, and servants
"Insurgents . . . disappointed in their villainous Stratagems" : plantation overseeing during the American Revolutionary War
Epilogue "Little better . . . than human brutes" : The consolidation of anti-overseer stereotypes.