A plantation overseer is like a foreman - a person in charge to make sure work is done and employees are managed.
Addendum. A plantation officer is not like a foreman who works with legally employed people who willingly sign a contract to do a work. They are enforcers who make sure people do the work a master wants done whether the enslaved want to or not.
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a slave went to the store without permission and when he came back the overseer was mad and wanted to whip him. the overseer asked Harriet to do it, but she refused and when the slaved tried to runaway he threw a weight at him and missed and hit harriet in the forehead almost crushing her skull.
The overseer, and on occasion the slaveholder, would check to make sure the slaves were doing what they were told to do.
Overseers punish slaves if they misbehave. They can also be responsible for finding runaway slaves. They answer to the owner of the plantation and cannot disobey or else they'll get fired.