Unnamed Tidewater Planters

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-02-10 11:42
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2475
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Unnamed Tidewater Planters
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Unnamed Tidewater Planters
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According to Absalom!, in the Tidewater area of Virginia these "certain few men" own the fields and the slaves who work in them, and hire the overseers who watch the slaves; they "have the power of life and death and barter and sale over others" (179).

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