found: Work cat.: 2006013080: Wiethoff, W.E. Crafting the overseer's image, 2006:ECIP galley (plantation overseers; plantation managers; supervisors; played crucial role in building plantation culture of the colonial and antebellum South; the overseer was the "man in the middle" between planters and slaves)
found: Lousiana studies in historic preservation web site, April 24, 2006(under Plantation life: wealthier planters often owned several plantations but had a permanent residence at only one; ancillary properties were usually administered by a paid overseer)
found: Colorado College, Dept. of History web site, April 24, 2006(from Slavery in the antebellum South: the overseer was the middle man who enforced and conditioned slaves to do exactly what the master intended for them; the overseer did the master's "dirty work" and was a more active participant in daily slave life; he maintained the element of slave misery, by controlling the degree of pain; it was the overseer's duty to enforce good behavior in order to perfect tight management)
