Overseers, Whiteness, and the Contradictions of the Slave System: An Introduction
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Esch, Elizabeth
Roediger, David
Issue Date
2023-03
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56
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2
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INTRODUCTION
We approach the book not as legal scholars but as historians of labor, race, and power. In what follows, we will situate Teri McMurtry-Chubb's study within historiographical traditions, describing how Race Unequals intersects with classic debates and new departures in the history of slavery and labor in the U.S. Two areas receive brief emphasis in this connection. First, is hegemony and the significance to McMurtry-Chubb of hegemony and hegemonic masculinity. Second, is the history of management in relation to slavery and overseers in the U.S. South. Both help us to understand the contradictions in Cartwright's position. More specifically, these foci provide a structure for understanding why, at times, Cartwright needed to assert that overseers were associates of masters in the command of racial and managerial knowledge, and at others saw them as inadequate and even suspect.
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Creighton University School of Law