Dr Laura Sandy PhD

Reader in the History of Slavery History

Work email L.Sandy@liverpool.ac.uk
ORCID0000-0002-2054-8159

Publications

Selected Publications

The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise (Book - 2020)
The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered Negotiating the Peripheries (Book - 2019)
Slave stealing women, slave-owning women, and stolen slaves in the American South (Journal article - 2021)
"Negro Thieves" and Abolitionists: Slave Stealing in Kentucky in the Civil War Era (Chapter - 2019)
Homemakers, Supervisors, and Peach Stealing Bitches: the role of overseers' wives on slave plantations in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina (Journal article - 2012)
"Known To Be Equal to the Management" The Modernising Planter and the Enslaved Overseer (Journal article - 2021)
Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution (Journal article - 2014)
Slavery and the "American Way of War," 1607-1861 (Journal article - 2021)

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2021

Slavery and the "American Way of War," 1607-1861 (Journal article)

Phillips, G., & Sandy, L. (2021). Slavery and the "American Way of War," 1607-1861. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY, 63(4), 825-850. doi:10.1017/S0010417521000268

DOI: 10.1017/S0010417521000268

Slave stealing women, slave-owning women, and stolen slaves in the American South (Journal article)

Sandy, L. R. (2021). Slave stealing women, slave-owning women, and stolen slaves in the American South. AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY HISTORY, 22(3), 271-288. doi:10.1080/14664658.2021.2022505

DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2021.2022505

In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History (Journal article)

Sandy, L. (2021). In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History. SLAVERY & ABOLITION, 42(3), 667-668. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2021.1949906

DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2021.1949906

Reputation and 'reputational entrepreneurship' in the colonial South and early republic: the case of plantation overseers (Journal article)

Sandy, L., & Phillips, G. (2021). Reputation and 'reputational entrepreneurship' in the colonial South and early republic: the case of plantation overseers. HISTORICAL RESEARCH, 94(263), 96-116. doi:10.1093/hisres/htaa033

DOI: 10.1093/hisres/htaa033

"Known To Be Equal to the Management" The Modernising Planter and the Enslaved Overseer (Journal article)

Sandy, L., & Phillips, G. (2021). "Known To Be Equal to the Management" The Modernising Planter and the Enslaved Overseer. JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SLAVERY, 6(1), 156-178. doi:10.1163/2405836X-00601006

DOI: 10.1163/2405836X-00601006

2020

The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise (Book)

Sandy, L. R. (2020). The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise. Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/

2019

"Negro Thieves" and Abolitionists: Slave Stealing in Kentucky in the Civil War Era (Chapter)

Sandy, L. R. (2019). "Negro Thieves" and Abolitionists: Slave Stealing in Kentucky in the Civil War Era. In L. Sandy (Ed.), The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries (pp. 81-102). Abingdon: Routledge.

Introduction: Negotiating the Peripheries (Chapter)

Sandy, L. R., & Molloy, M. (2019). Introduction: Negotiating the Peripheries. In L. R. Sandy, & M. Molloy (Eds.), The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries (pp. 1-17). Abingdon: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/

The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered Negotiating the Peripheries (Book)

Sandy, L. R., & Molloy, M. S. (2019). The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered Negotiating the Peripheries. Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/

2017

Slave owning overseers in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina (Journal article)

Sandy, L. (2017). Slave owning overseers in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina. Slavery & Abolition, 38(3), 459-474. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2017.1327097

DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2017.1327097

AGAINST THE GRAIN (Journal article)

Sandy, L. (2017). AGAINST THE GRAIN. HISTORY TODAY, 67(12), 100. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

2014

Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution (Journal article)

Sandy, L. (2014). Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution. Journal of American Studies, 48(2), 357-392. doi:10.1017/s0021875813001424

DOI: 10.1017/s0021875813001424

2012

Homemakers, Supervisors, and Peach Stealing Bitches: the role of overseers' wives on slave plantations in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina (Journal article)

Sandy, L. (2012). Homemakers, Supervisors, and Peach Stealing Bitches: the role of overseers' wives on slave plantations in eighteenth-century Virginia and South Carolina. WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW, 21(3), 473-494. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.661157

DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2012.661157

Supervisors of Small Worlds: The Role of Overseers on Colonial South Carolina Slave Plantations (Journal article)

Sandy, L. (2012). Supervisors of Small Worlds: The Role of Overseers on Colonial South Carolina Slave Plantations. Journal of Early American History, 2(2), 178-210. doi:10.1163/187707012x649585

DOI: 10.1163/187707012x649585

2009

Mary- Anne Schad and Mrs Brown: Overseers Wives in Colonial South Carolina (Chapter)

Sandy, L. R. (2009). Mary- Anne Schad and Mrs Brown: Overseers Wives in Colonial South Carolina. In South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (pp. 60-78). Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Mrs Shad and Mrs Brown: Overseers Wives and their Roles on Slave Plantations in 18th Century South Carolina (Chapter)

Sandy, L. R. (2009). Mrs Shad and Mrs Brown: Overseers Wives and their Roles on Slave Plantations in 18th Century South Carolina. In M. Spruill (Ed.), South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (pp. 60-78). Athens: University of Georgia Press.