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overseers
They threatened to separate slaves from their family members. Overseers also often used physical violence on disobedient slaves.
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One way overseers punished slaves was to threaten to separate them from their families.
Overseers manage and supervise underlings.
Slaves and overseers
Overseers.
Black slaves who served as overseers of other slaves were known as "black overseers" or "slave drivers."
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Overseers were either trusted slaves or hired workers who kept the slave population working and subdued.
Slave overseers got paid a small portion of the plantation and some times food and shelter.
Slaves and overseers
Both black and white men worked as overseers during the slavery days of the American South. In Cuba, black overseers were often put in charge of Chinese indentured servants.
overseers
Overseers in the Southern colonies were workers hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of slaves. So they were more like supervisors, and if the slaves weren't performing their tasks, the overseers would then proceed to whip them.
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