They rejected the assumption that slaves were generally lazy, insisting that slaves were actually thirty-four percent more efficient than white farmers were. ... Fogel and Engerman also claim that other historians incorrectly believed that "white overseer[s are] are assumed to have been an ubiquitous figure, present on virtually all plantations of one hundred or more slaves" (284). Census data shows that only thirty percent of plantations employed white overseers. ... Similar to Genovese's views, Stampp saw that "small patches which his Negroes cultivated for themselves wer...

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