Overseers found ways to make the lives of enslaved people a living hell and one such way was to threaten to separate slaves from their family members.
There were several ways overseers punished enslaved people they felt were being disobedient such as:
- Physically - by whipping and beating them
- Psychologically - by threatening to sell off their relatives thereby separating families
Once families were separated and given to new owners, reconciliation was quite difficult so enslaved people did not want this and overseers capitalized on this fear to punish them.
In conclusion, overseers threatened enslaved people with family separation and dissolution.
Find out more at https://brainly.com/question/11024123 and https://brainly.com/question/15402438.
