Laura R Sandy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura R Sandy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandy |
| SIGNATURE | SANDY L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2054-8159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Slave stealing women, slave-owning women, and stolen slaves in the American South
Slave stealing has not attracted scholarly attention; the women branded as kidnappers and “Negro thieves” are almost completely absent from the historiography of American slavery. Free women, across the spectra of race and class, played central roles in these dangerous, illegal, “unfeminine” ventures. On the other side of the law, slave-owning women were also embroiled in slave stealing cases. They frequently filed suits attempting to retrieve th…
Known To Be Equal to the Management”: The Modernising Planter and the Enslaved Overseer
Enslaved overseers have largely been neglected in the extant historiography of plantation slavery. At best they have been pushed to the margins of the literature, their numbers and their significance downplayed. Yet, as large plantations diversified over the latter years of the eighteenth century, and as relations between established planters and independently minded and aspirational white overseers became prone to mistrust and friction, many pro…
Reputation and 'reputational entrepreneurship' in the colonial South and early republic: The Case of Plantation Overseers
Overseers were essential both to the profitability of North American slave plantations and to maintaining white racial hegemony. Yet they and their families were frequently condemned by planters as shiftless, incompetent, dishonest and brutal. Drawing on the sociology of reputation, and in particular the concept of 'reputational entrepreneurship', this article argues that the damning claims made by planters, and the responses of overseers and the…
Slavery and the 'American Way of War,' 1607-1861
Slavery and warfare were inextricably intertwined in the history of Britain's North American colonies and, subsequently, the early republic. Yet this deep connection has not been acknowledged in the historiography. In particular, the debate about an 'American way of war' has neglected the profound significance of slavery as a formative factor in America's 'first way of war.' Here, these two forms of organized, systemic violence are considered not…
The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disd…
Slave owning overseers in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina
This article examines the position and experiences of plantation overseers in Virginia and South Carolina in the eighteenth century who, whilst themselves employed by planters to supervise their slaves, were also slave owners in their own right. The current historiography often does little more than dismiss the overseer as a figure drawn from the lower stratum of white society. Notwithstanding the reputation of overseers as poor whites who were d…
Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution
Drawing primarily on archival material such as plantation records, this article places the figure of the plantation overseer at the centre of the drama of the American Revolution in the southern colonies. Occupying a contested liminal space within colonial society, between rich and poor, and between the free and the unfree, the overseer was not necessarily the ne'er-do-well of conventional stereotype. This “Predatory War,” however, tested the ove…
Supervisors of Small Worlds: The Role of Overseers on Colonial South Carolina Slave Plantations
The established historiography of slavery includes a substantial body of work on the colonial period, with particular emphasis upon the Atlantic slave trade and the development of the plantation system and the slave community embedded within it. However, one key element in the organization of plantations has received little attention: the overseers. Slave owners and slaves are well represented in documentary sources, yet overseers, despite their …
Homemakers, Supervisors, and Peach Stealing Bitches: The role of overseers' wives on slave plantations in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina
The otherwise extensive historiography of slavery in colonial America has rather neglected the overseer and his family, as indeed the wider historiography of colonial society has often neglected the white poor. By considering, specifically, the role of overseers' wives, this article seeks to recover the history of poor white women who, although often vilified by their employers for their allegedly wayward behaviour, made a significant contributio…
Lesbian Cinderella and other stories: Telling tales and researching sexualities equalities in primary school
This article provides a critical account of a selection of approaches that were used in the 26-month No Outsiders participatory action research project in education settings. The paper questions what challenges are presented to educators in critically exploring and challenging heteronormative sex-gender discourses. We revisit some of the tensions in undertaking a project of this kind, by exploring data episodes as vignettes to highlight the recup…
Slavery and the 'American Way of War,' 1607-1861
Slavery and warfare were inextricably intertwined in the history of Britain's North American colonies and, subsequently, the early republic. Yet this deep connection has not been acknowledged in the historiography. In particular, the debate about an 'American way of war' has neglected the profound significance of slavery as a formative factor in America's 'first way of war.' Here, these two forms of organized, systemic violence are considered not…
Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution
Drawing primarily on archival material such as plantation records, this article places the figure of the plantation overseer at the centre of the drama of the American Revolution in the southern colonies. Occupying a contested liminal space within colonial society, between rich and poor, and between the free and the unfree, the overseer was not necessarily the ne'er-do-well of conventional stereotype. This “Predatory War,” however, tested the ove…
Lesbian Cinderella and other stories: Telling tales and researching sexualities equalities in primary school
This article provides a critical account of a selection of approaches that were used in the 26-month No Outsiders participatory action research project in education settings. The paper questions what challenges are presented to educators in critically exploring and challenging heteronormative sex-gender discourses. We revisit some of the tensions in undertaking a project of this kind, by exploring data episodes as vignettes to highlight the recup…
Supervisors of Small Worlds: The Role of Overseers on Colonial South Carolina Slave Plantations
The established historiography of slavery includes a substantial body of work on the colonial period, with particular emphasis upon the Atlantic slave trade and the development of the plantation system and the slave community embedded within it. However, one key element in the organization of plantations has received little attention: the overseers. Slave owners and slaves are well represented in documentary sources, yet overseers, despite their …
Homemakers, Supervisors, and Peach Stealing Bitches: The role of overseers' wives on slave plantations in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina
The otherwise extensive historiography of slavery in colonial America has rather neglected the overseer and his family, as indeed the wider historiography of colonial society has often neglected the white poor. By considering, specifically, the role of overseers' wives, this article seeks to recover the history of poor white women who, although often vilified by their employers for their allegedly wayward behaviour, made a significant contributio…
Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution
Drawing primarily on archival material such as plantation records, this article places the figure of the plantation overseer at the centre of the drama of the American Revolution in the southern colonies. Occupying a contested liminal space within colonial society, between rich and poor, and between the free and the unfree, the overseer was not necessarily the ne'er-do-well of conventional stereotype. This “Predatory War,” however, tested the ove…
Slave owning overseers in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina
This article examines the position and experiences of plantation overseers in Virginia and South Carolina in the eighteenth century who, whilst themselves employed by planters to supervise their slaves, were also slave owners in their own right. The current historiography often does little more than dismiss the overseer as a figure drawn from the lower stratum of white society. Notwithstanding the reputation of overseers as poor whites who were d…
The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise
Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent, they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues, yet others were highly skilled professionals, farmers, and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives, with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships, were caught between disd…
Slave stealing women, slave-owning women, and stolen slaves in the American South
Slave stealing has not attracted scholarly attention; the women branded as kidnappers and “Negro thieves” are almost completely absent from the historiography of American slavery. Free women, across the spectra of race and class, played central roles in these dangerous, illegal, “unfeminine” ventures. On the other side of the law, slave-owning women were also embroiled in slave stealing cases. They frequently filed suits attempting to retrieve th…
Known To Be Equal to the Management”: The Modernising Planter and the Enslaved Overseer
Enslaved overseers have largely been neglected in the extant historiography of plantation slavery. At best they have been pushed to the margins of the literature, their numbers and their significance downplayed. Yet, as large plantations diversified over the latter years of the eighteenth century, and as relations between established planters and independently minded and aspirational white overseers became prone to mistrust and friction, many pro…
Reputation and 'reputational entrepreneurship' in the colonial South and early republic: The Case of Plantation Overseers
Overseers were essential both to the profitability of North American slave plantations and to maintaining white racial hegemony. Yet they and their families were frequently condemned by planters as shiftless, incompetent, dishonest and brutal. Drawing on the sociology of reputation, and in particular the concept of 'reputational entrepreneurship', this article argues that the damning claims made by planters, and the responses of overseers and the…
Slavery and the 'American Way of War,' 1607-1861
Slavery and warfare were inextricably intertwined in the history of Britain's North American colonies and, subsequently, the early republic. Yet this deep connection has not been acknowledged in the historiography. In particular, the debate about an 'American way of war' has neglected the profound significance of slavery as a formative factor in America's 'first way of war.' Here, these two forms of organized, systemic violence are considered not…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Historiography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)