Extra Credit Questions

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(09-02-2019 05:02 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  No idea, but I'll take a guess based on the words. The overseer directed all the slaves during their workday, and the overlooker was hired to make sure the overseer was doing his job. In other words, the overlooker reported to the plantation owner on his observations of the overseer.

Roger - You are 99% accurate, but according to the writings of Frederick Law Olmsted as he traveled the South in the 1850s, there was one distinguishing feature between the two. I found this confirmed in one other source, the WPA Slave Narratives. What was that one feature?