Note 23 — Chapter IV · THE EXCEPTIONAL LARGE PLANTERS.
Reading edition
“I was informed that some successful planters, who held several estates in this neighbourhood [Natchez] made it a rule to change their overseers every year, on the principle that the two years’ service system is sure to spoil them.”—Russell’s North America: its Agriculture, etc., p. 258.
“Overseers are changed every year; a few remain four or five years, but the average time they remain on the same plantation does not exceed two years.”—Southern Agriculturist, vol. iv., p. 351.