Eugene Genovese, a noted historian of slavery, claims that paternalism is incompatible with bourgeois social relations. By this he means that the idea of individual freedom is inconsistent with paternalism.
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Paternalism and Slavery ... • To question how scholars have described slavery and the behavior of both those held as slaves and the slaveholders. Paternalism and Slavery; • Paternalism is one such description of the relationship between those held as slaves and the slaveholder.
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Mastering Childhood: Paternalism, Slavery, and the Southern Domestic in Caroline Howard Gilman's Antebellum Children's Literature from Southern Quarterly provided by Find Articles at BNET ... These poems and short pieces exemplify the idealized paternalism that appeared in the Rose-Bud. Yet even in these relatively...
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Mastering Childhood: Paternalism, Slavery, and the Southern Domestic in Caroline Howard Gilman's Antebellum Children's Literature from Southern Quarterly provided by Find Articles at BNET ... Gilman also taught little boys how they should behave around their slaves. One story written in Peter had shown the lantern,
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he consistency of Mill's rejection of strong paternalism is called into question when he refuses to allow a person voluntarily to sell himself into slavery. Mill's argument is worth quoting:
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"The Intellectual Genealogy of Paternalism: Linking Theoretical Rationalizations of Slavery, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta Hilton, Charlotte, NC, Oct 02, 2007 <Not Available>.
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...For the slaveholders, paternalism represented an attempt to overcome the fundamental contradiction in slavery: the impossibility of the slaves' ever becoming the things they were suppose to be. Paternalism defined the involuntary labor of the slaves as a legitimate return to their masters for protection and direction.
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The doctrine of paternalism guided much of the Southern rationale for slavery. ... Paternalism was thus more a justification, than an orientation, for slavery. Although material comfort or discomfort was contingent on the individual owner's finances, management style, and disposition, in general, enslaved people were...
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