Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Southern Plantation Overseer, as Revealed in His Letters
Author: John Spencer BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Southern Plantation Overseer As Revealed in His Letters
Author: John S. BassettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781261524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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Race Unequals
Author: Teri A. McMurtry-ChubbPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498599079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in shades of White male identity. Through an examination of employment contracts between plantation owners and their overseers, and the web of public and private law that surrounded them, this book challenges notions of a monolithic White male identity in the antebellum South. It considers how race provided White men access to the land and enslaved labor that were foundational to the plantation economy, but how the wealthiest of those men used contracts, public law, and plantation management schemes to limit the access points by which overseers, the first managerial class in the United States, could achieve upward mobility as both White people and as men. In navigating the legal and social parameters of their employment contracts, overseers negotiated a white masculinity that formed their managerial identity. This managerial identity carried the imprint of white supremacy necessary to preserve inequities on the plantation, and perhaps in our modern workplaces as well.
The Overseers of Early American Slavery
Author: Laura R. SandyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000048969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved labourers, as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history, revealed here in unprecedented detail, illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society.
Within the Plantation Household
Author: Elizabeth Fox-GenovesePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807864226
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.
Class, Race, and Marxism
Author: David RoedigerPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786631261
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association C.L.R. James Award Seen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. This volume collects his recent and new work implicitly and explicitly challenging such a view. In his historical studies of the intersections of race, settler colonialism, and slavery, in his major essay (with Elizabeth Esch) on race and the management of labor, in his detailing of the origins of critical studies of whiteness within Marxism, and in his reflections on the history of solidarity, Roediger argues that racial division is part of not only of the history of capitalism but also of the logic of capital.
Birthing a Slave
Author: Marie Jenkins SchwartzPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer. Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.