Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy

by Teri A McMurtry-Chubb and Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb

Book Overview

This study examines white male identity in the plantation economy of the antebellum American South. By analyzing 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498599087
• ISBN13: 9781498599085
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"