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They watch over the slaves from behind and were cruel to them and would often whip them.

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An overseer was.....

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The role of the white overseer was to watch over the slaves and make sure that they produced an abundance of fertile crops and if not punish the slaves brutally.

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He was being beat by him when he angrily stood up and took the axe from him, literally chopping him into pieces.

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They are to also whip the slaves, and if they don't, they'll get whipped too.

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The role of the white overseer is to follow those slavers and watch how they are doing. Also, they would bring bowie knife, whip and several dogs to deterrence those slaves.

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A white overseer basically managed the slaves, they made sure they worked and worked well. Their means of managing the slaves were also on the harsher side.

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His story is important because there are not many accounts of how slavery was from a slave's point of view, so this gives us more insight on the reality of how their lives were.

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The overseer usually abused the slaves. And watched them closely to ensure that they did their job.

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The slave was splitting rails at the time during which his overseer came to him and sent him on an errand to which the next day was accused of stealing from the owner during that errand and maddened by the injustice and punishment the slave upheld an axe and killed the overseer

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The rolde of the white overseer was to keep an eye on the slaves. They where gaurded with knifes, wipes and pistol.

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A white overseer would watch over the slaves and make sure that they were doing their job.

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He was ordered to kneel and bare his back for the reception of the lash. Therefore, he serizing an axe and chopped the overseer in pieces.

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They are to oversee the growth of the crops and to watch over the slaves, they are armed with pistols, dogs, bowie knife and a whip.

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They have to finish their own work, and also need to whipping off their several gangs.

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The role of black drivers was to forcefully whip those under them lest they be whipped themselves and give the workers cakes to eat

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The role of the white overseer was to follow behind slaves to look over them. They were armed with knives or guns and followed by dogs in order to ensure that quality work was being produced.

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The slave was given a task to do, it was so time-consuming he couldn't finish the work in the day. He was later called into the middle of the woods the next day by an overseer. He was ordered to kneel and receive lashes. At first, he submitted to do it then he exploded with anger due to lack of justice. He took an axe and brutally killed the overseer.

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Their role was to watch the slaves, and they were often equipped with pistols, bowie knife, whip, and accompanied by several dogs.

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The story is important because it could make more people know about how the slaves live like in those kind of environment and what kind of situation they have. Therefore, readers could pay more attention to learn more about the history and try to never do it again in history.

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The black drivers were meant to whip the slaves, threatened that it they didn't whip the black slaves, the slave owners would whip the black drivers.

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White Overseer oversaw the slaves and made sure they actually did their jobs

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His story is important because it allows us to see the wrong done to these people during that time period and there were not many accounts of slaves causing this to be a rare account of events.

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The slaves was given an assignment complete. The assignment was so impossible it couldnt be done in one day. Then he was called by the overseer and was orderd to do something. Out of anger he killed the overseer with an axe.

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The slave was sent to complete a task in an unreasonable amount of time, when the task wasn't completed the Overseer called the slave to meet him and the overseer beat the slave. But the Slave was filled up with so much injustice that he took an axe and killed the overseer chopping him into pieces.

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The slave was sent on an errand, it took so much of the slaves time that he could not preform his tasks and as a result was made to kneel and endure lashes to the back, in and enraged state, the slave got up, took an axe and chopped his overseer into pieces. The slave was caught and hung.

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The white overseers purpose was to keep watch over the slaves 

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The white overseers purpose was to keep watch over the slaves 

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I think Northup's story is so important because it gives in an insider to life as a black person during slavery. Also the fact that it is an autobiography makes it more trustworthy because there were barely any black people that were slaves that told their story first hand.

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The roles of the black drivers was to whip the slaves and if they didnt they where gonna recive the same treatment as them

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The black "drivers" where also black slaves that were equipped with whips for the slaves. They also had tasks to preform and were told that if they failed to use the whips they would be whipped themselves.

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Their role was to complete their own work, as well as whip the slaves. Failure to complete such a task would result in the Black "Divers" getting whipped themselves.

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I think Northups story is importeant because it shows readers on what is happening to these slave and how they are treated. I also think its important because then the people voices are heard and their story is told

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The white overseer job is to watch and keep the slaves working they bring multiple weapons and often abuse them.

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Black drivers whiped slaves and if they didnt they would be in the same shoes.

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This story is important because it tells the cruel reality of what it was to actually live as a slave. Not from an outside perspective, but as someone who actually went through all of those things.

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A slave basically was forced to work but it took too long and he couldn't finish work fast enough. So, he was beaten in the woods and took it before he grabbed an axe and chopped our boy up.

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The slave was told to do something on a impossible time so he failed and the Overseer called the slave to meet him and the overseer beat the slave. So he killed killed the overseer and chopped him up

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Northups story is important because there aren't many storys told in the point of view of a slave, which makes the story more impactful.

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The slave was given a task to do which was splitting rails, during the day the overseer sent him on an errand. This errand consumed so much time that he could not finish his task. The following day he was called and ordered to kneel and bare his back for the reception of a lash. They were away from people in the woods and the boy took the beating until he was maddened to the point of taking an axe and beating his overseer to pieces.

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They whipped slaves

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The slave was accused for stealing and before being lashed.He was angered for being accused for something he didnt do. Grabbed and axe and then killed the overseer.

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They had to whip slaves but like if they didn't they got whipped.

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The role of the black "drivers" was to do their share of work and whip other slaves. If drivers failed to use their whips they were whipped as well.

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black "drivers" would whip the slaves

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The role of the white overseer was to watch the salves. They were armed with weapons.

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I think Northup's story is so important because it gives people a different perspective of what happened to slaves in the past while also teaching us about certain roles in plantations. His story is important because he is a slave himself giving us insight about the past.

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Black drivers jobs were to whip slaves as well and if they werent to do it they would be whipped too.

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Northup's story is important because it gives people the perspective of how slaves were treated in the past and the fact that we don't hear or know that much from their perspective back in the days.

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Its important because it tells the conditons about how slaves lived were at the time

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His story was so impactful because considering that slaves couldnt read or write and he was able of writing its impressive.

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I feel like his story was one of many but it's so important because it's told BY HIM.

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Northup story is important because it is a reminder of our history and to see how long we came as humans from this point in time.

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The role of the white overseer was to watch over the Slaves at all times and make sure there on track.

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The slave was given his task at splitting rails. In the course of the day the overseer sent him on an errand, which occupied so much time that it was not possible for him to perform the task. The next day he was called to an account, but the loss of time occasioned by the errand was no excuse, and he was ordered to kneel and bare his
back for the reception of the lash.

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They had to whip the slaves or else they'll be whipped.

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Northups story is important because this is rare, hes giving us the real point of view of what happened to the salves, which is something unique.

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The role of an overseer was to ride into the fields on a horseback, armed with pistols, bowie knives, whips, and accompanied by dogs to keep a sharp lookout on the slaves

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The slave was executed for killing his overseer the slave was given his task at splitting rails and the overseer sent him on an errand but he did not have enough time to complete his task so the next day he was called to an account and he was told to kneel and bare his back for the reception. The slave in pain and with anger he seized an axe and cut the overseer in pieces

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The role of the black drivers were to whip several gangs and if they didn't accomplish their role they were whipped themselves

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Northup's story is important because it's the point of view of someone who was an actual slave which makes it a primary source and we don't usually see that it's really rare to have actual details of what has happened to a slave