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From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people during the eighteenth century.
In the antebellum southern United States, major landowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In addition to cultivating crops, managing slaves, and dispensing punishment, overseers were expected to maximize profits through increased productivity-often achieved through violence and cruelty....
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