System, Organization, and Agricultural Reform in the Antebellum South, 1840-1860

Collins, Steven G.

doi:10.1525/ah.2001.75.1.1

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“…36 Books, journals, agricultural institutions and conventions all circulated information that 'encouraged better farming techniques, efficient plantation management, crop diversification and technological progress'. 37 Southern periodicals occasionally cited Irish sources such as the Irish Farmers' Gazette. 38 Cotton planters experimented with seed types and different planting techniques such as drilling methods similar to those used in grain cultivation, which contributed to higher crop yields.…”

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“…39 Steven G. Collins outlines how southern reformers 'transformed new industrial ideas of system, technology, organization, and control into a unique vision of modernization based on agriculture and slave labor'. 40 Improvement in the managerial skills of overseers was deemed necessary by agronomic enslavers. 41 In 1855, DeBow's Review stated that 'the time has passed when the overseer was valued solely for the number of bales of cotton, hogs-heads of sugar, or tierces of rice he had made, without reference to his other qualifications'.…”

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Irish overseers in the antebellum U.S. South

Regan

2021

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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This article aims to further understand the Irish immigrant experience with U.S. slavery by studying Irish overseers on southern plantations. The Irish relationship with U.S. slavery varied according to circumstances. However, as foreign-born outsiders, Irish immigrants in the South had to accommodate the region's slaveholding culture. This article takes the story of the Irish as urban pioneers of the antebellum South out into the southern countryside. Those who sought employment as overseers had no qualms about profiting from racial slavery, and the nationality of a successful overseer was immaterial to planters. Irish overseers were not categorically different from native-born southern overseers. Indeed, Irish overseers had to be as ruthless as their American counterparts if they hoped to be successful. The expansion of the southern economy in accordance with the rise of the ‘second slavery’ created more significant opportunities for Irish immigrants to become overseers and demonstrates the essential whiteness of the Irish in the South.

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confidence: 99%