xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Overseer plantation management in the old south by William Kauffman Scarborough.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-264) and index.
Contents: Role of the overseer in the plantation establishment -- Contractual and social relations -- A statistical view of the overseer -- Managerial duties and responsibilities -- Discord between overseer and planter -- The overseer during the Civil War -- The overseer elite -- The steward -- Notes
Bibliography -- Index
Illustrations -- All illustrations are reproduced from the Harper's New Monthly Magazine: Negros at home -- Picking cotton -- Cotton-gin -- ginning cotton -- Harvesting the rice.
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Category 08: Communication Objects
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Plantations -- Southern States -- Management -- History., Slavery -- Southern States -- History.