But she must not think of stopping a moment to rest, for the eyes of the brutal overseer were upon her, and the thought of the stinging lash, the smart and pain, came across her mind, and urged her on, and made her work with greater swiftness than before.

They had a colored overseer or foreman like.

This made a dreadful instrument of torture, and, when in the hands of a cruel overseer, it was truly fearful.

Perhaps Satan had reached the stern old overseer's heart.

They stated that they had more trouble with petty overseers and managers and small proprietors than with the entire black population.

After declaring that he who is 'guilty of wilfully and maliciously killing a slave, shall suffer the same punishment as if he had killed a freeman;' the act concludes thus: 'Provided, always, this act shall not extend to the person killing a slave outlawed by virtue of any act of Assembly of this state; or to any slave in the act of resistance to his lawful overseer, or master, or to any slave dying under moderate correction.'

He was just stepping out of the door when he met the enraged overseer with his gun in his hand.

If he would employ a competent overseer and move off the plantation with his family he could make good crops, as he has a good force of hands and good lands....

This cause operates very extensively, particularly on two classes of estates: those which lie convenient to market places, where the apprentices have strong inducements to cultivate their grounds, and those (more numerous still) which have harsh overseers, to whom the apprentices are averse to hire their timein which cases they will choose to work for neighboring planters, who are better men.

The great properties were usually divided, even where the lands lay in single tracts, into several plantations for more convenient operation, each under a separate overseer or in some cases under a slave foreman.

An overseer by the name of Alexander, notorious for his cruelty, was found dead in the timbered lands of the Brassos.

[Footnote A: The book-keepers are subordinate overseers and drivers; they are generally young white men, who after serving a course of years in a sort of apprenticeship, are promoted to managers of estates.

If they dared to put a gold ring on their finger, even that trifling pretension to gentility was detected and disallowed by the jealous overseer.

Character of the Government On a comprehensive view of its several elements, the Carthaginian constitution appears to have been a government of capitalists, such as might naturally arise in a burgess-community which had no middle class of moderate means but consisted on the one hand of an urban rabble without property and living from hand to mouth, and on the other hand of great merchants, planters, and genteel overseers.

Faithful Thomas Devoy has proved himself to be a truly honest and efficient overseer.

His few remaining slaves were given into the hands of an idle, brutal overseer while they, half fed, half clothed, grew more and more discontented, and ran away on every opportunity that offered.

With some such thoughts I commended the slaves on the plantation to the little overseer's wife; I did not tell my thoughts to her, they would have scared the poor little woman half out of her senses.

Unjust and arbitrary fines are imposed by harsh employers so as to filch a portion of their scanty earnings; their time is wasted by unnecessary delay in the giving out of work, or its inspection when finished; the brutality and insolence of male overseers is a common incident in their career.

Miss Beecham had told me she was Minnie Benson, daughter of Harold's married overseer on Wyambeet, his adjoining station.

Others would pause on their trip at some plantation, ascertain the name of the 'meanest' overseer on the place, then tie him backward on a horse and force him to accompany them.

Dr. Jimmy had a nigger overseer.

"I heard folks say they rather be under the home men overseers than Northern overseers.

Ha! says one of our waywardens or parish overseers,What business is this of yours?

They gathered a number of the apples, and then strolled on, and eat a moment with the pleasant overseer's wife.

The writer described himself as unwilling to sacrifice his agricultural reading in order to superintend his slaves in person, but as having too small a force to afford the employment of an overseer pure and simple.