SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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To evaluate the price of slaves
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to supervise the work of slaves
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to teach slaves to use new tools
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to help them escape
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Detailed explanation-1: -On a plantation where enslaved people were forced to work, it was the overseer’s job to make sure they were productive, ensuring that the plantation owner made as much money as possible. Overseers could, and often did, brutally punish enslaved workers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The overseer on a plantation was the “middle man, ” whose responsibilities included the management of the enslaved laborers according to the master’s orders.
Detailed explanation-3: -They lived in one house, upon the home plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. My master was Colonel Lloyd’s clerk and superintendent. He was what might be called the overseer of the overseers.
Detailed explanation-4: -On large plantations, the person who directed the daily work of the slaves was the overseer, usually a white man but occasionally an enslaved black man-a “driver"-promoted to the position by his master.