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(09-02-2019 11:02 AM)Steve Wrote:  An "overlooker" was a slave.

A+ to both Steve and Roger!

Many writers on slavery in the U.S. fail to mention that there was a caste system among the "peculiar institution" itself. Some masters trusted their field workers to move up in the ranks to positions of minor leadership, just as house servants were held in higher rank than fieldhands.