Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family, and slaves were content with their fate.
It grew out of the necessity to discipline and moral.
Slaveholders\' Paternalism had little to do with ostensible benevolence, kindness, and good cheer.
Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation.
In this book, Eugene D.
Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family, and slaves were content with their fate