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Overseers were either trusted slaves or hired workers who kept the slave population working and subdued.
The slave labourer itself doesn't earn anything if anything they pay money to get the slave, but if you meant how much the SLAVE gets payed then the answer is nothing they are slaves not servants. The difference between them is that a slave is captured, not hired like a servant is, and a servant actually gets payed.
Yes, the plantation owners often had hired-hands or "overseers" to supervise their slaves.
It meant a slave ran away.
Bloodhounds were commonly used to pick up the scent of slaves and to track them down. Slave owners somtimes hired mercenaries or Bounty Hunters to retreive slaves.
Servus means slave in Latin.
Another word for slave is servant.
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It does not necessarily mean you will not be hired but it is likely to reduce your chances.
Hired laborers and craftsmen were used to build the Basilica. No slave labor was used.
Abolitionists were people who wanted the Slaves to be free...They were the people who helped with the underground railroad for example. So, no, I think if you owned a slave back then, you really didn't want an abolitionist watching your slave ;)