overseer

Examples of overseer in the following topics:

• Cost of Capital Considerations

  • One of the major considerations that overseers of firms must take into account when planning out capital structure is the cost of capital.

• White Society in the South

  • Serving as slave "patrollers" and "overseers" offered white southerners positions of power and honor.
  • Slave "patrollers" and "overseers" also won prestige in their communities.

• Slavery in the Antebellum Period

  • Punishment was meted out in response to perceived disobedience or infractions, but also as a means for a master or overseer to assert dominance.
  • In small operations, slaves worked side by side with their owners; on large plantations, they were directed by white paid overseers.

• Slave Labor

  • On small farms, slaves worked side by side with their owners, whereas, on large plantations they were directed by white paid overseers.

• "Poor Whites"

  • Elite planters with numerous slaves were essentially managers, and often supervised an overseer rather than the slaves themselves.

• Optimal Capital Structure Considerations

  • One of the major considerations that overseers of firms must take into account when planning out capital structure is the cost of capital.

• Excavata

  • The kinetoplastid subgroup is named after the kinetoplast, a DNA mass carried within the single, oversized mitochondrion possessed by each of these cells.

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• Abstract Expressionist Sculpture

  • Claes Oldenburg produced oversized reproductions of familiar objects in increased sizes to abstract the subject matter.

• African-American Culture

  • Although the treatment of slaves varied depending on plantation norms, overseers, and masters, more often than not it was characterized by brutality.