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Who ran the plantation for the plantation owner?
the overseer ran the plantation maybe buy slaves
What does overseer mean?
A plantation overseer is like a foreman - a person in charge to make sure work is done and employees are managed. Addendum. A plantation officer is not like a foreman who works with legally employed people who willingly sign a contract to do a work. They are enforcers who make sure people do the work a master wants done whether the enslaved want to or not.
What is a slave overseer?
Overseers punish slaves if they misbehave. They can also be responsible for finding runaway slaves. They answer to the owner of the plantation and cannot disobey or else they'll get fired.
What did plantation owners fear that led them to separate the white servants from black slaves?
Slave rebellions.
What is a large farm with many workers called?
I believe you are looking for the term "plantation"
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