USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Plantation owner An individual who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the antebellum South have generally defined “planter” most precisely as a person owning property (real estate) and 20 or more slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reexamining conventional scholarship and supplementing it with slave narratives and legal resources suggest that slaves served as overseers more frequently and more competently than previously reported.