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Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia is a solid work of scholarship, and even specialists in the field of colonial slavery will derive considerable benefit from reading it. -- Journal of Southern History Masters of Violence presents a detailed analysis of the changing role of the overseer and posits that the reputational violence associated with this class of worker led slaveholders to view them less favorably as plantation-based slavery continued into the nineteenth century. -- Journal of American History

Stubbs's work is a fine example of what historians can do when they work across the fractured lines of historiographical modes like cultural, political, and social, and connect historiographies. The book is also well researched, both bringing to light new aspects on familiar sources but also resurrecting interesting ones that few current scholars have used. -- The American Historical Review Masters of Violence is a fascinating study of an important and understudied topic and a valuable addition to the scholarship of eighteenth-century plantations. -- Maryland Historical Magazine Masters of Violence presents a detailed analysis of the changing role of the overseer and posits that the reputational violence associated with this class of worker led slaveholders to view them less favorably as plantation-based slavery continued into the nineteenth century. -- Journal of American History Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia is a solid work of scholarship, and even specialists in the field of colonial slavery will derive considerable benefit from reading it. -- Journal of Southern History

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Tristan Stubbs is an affiliate faculty member of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston. He previously held appointments with the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex. Stubbs was the Gilder Lehrman Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Virginia Historical Society, and the Lewis P. Jones Visiting Fellow at the University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

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