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Frederick Douglass: The overseer is generally accuser, judge, jury, advocate and executioner.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The overseer is generally accuser, judge, jury, advocate and executioner.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass vividly portrays the unchecked and comprehensive authority wielded by an overseer on a slave plantation.

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