USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Slave patrols-also known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers-were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states.

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: -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.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to real estate and personal estate values in the 1860 U.S. Census, the overwhelming majority of employers who hired the enslaved were lower and middle class.