Another instance may be found in the letter to Miss Telfair when the overseer of her Georgia plantation writes despairingly in 1836:‘ . . . so soon as I am absent from either [gang] they are ...

Photo from Duke University Library Special Collections Patrick Rael returns! This time with a guest post on some odd (to put it politely) ways of remembering slavery: ...

As is often the case in novels about slavery, one major theme is the power of storytelling. Of his mother's writing, the printer explains, "Although shy of the task at first, after several months ...

By fooling the master or overseer with their behavior, they resisted additional ill treatment. Enslaved African Americans also resisted by forming community within the plantation setting.

From that plantation it was a 41 mile march to New Orleans. On the march, the insurgents burned several plantation houses, ... a Creole mulatto, who had been a plantation overseer.