Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

5/1/1976 - 7/31/1976

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


The Black Slave Driver in the Antebellum South

FAIN: FT-12990-76

Randall M. Miller
Pennsylvania Humanities Council (Philadelphia, PA 19102-4121)

To investigate the exact nature of social relationships established by the slave drivers and their fellow slaves, and the range of duties and skills required of drivers. Traveling to the South will enable examination of papers collected by planters' which will show the planters' perceptions of the black slave driver.