What Were The Four Main Arguments In Favor Of Paternalism?

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The concept of “paternalism” in regards to slave owners taking responsibility for the production of work, and moral well being of their women,children,and slaves who worked the plantations. One planter is known as the head or authority of plantation which owns the rights to slaves (property) and the slaves rights are to protect, obey, and care for their "master." This set the culture boundary between slave owners and slaves.This concept made slave owners feel as if what they were doing were a kind gesture for slaves. The four main arguments in favor of slavery begins with dominance through white supremacy and the common belief that slavery was necessary to sustain goods that whites considered necessities. Instead of seeing slavery as a bad thing slave owners began to believe that once you look past slavery being morally, and criminally, and politically unjust that it contains all the unwanted people out of everyday emergence since blacks are unwanted, and lastly that blacks are incapable of taking care of themselves they are inferior to the whites and unsuited for life outside of slavery.
Life like for free blacks in different regions varied such as blacks up north could be in better living conditions than whites and often wealthier than whites and …show more content…

Marriages and such were not considered legal . Slave women would not participate in the women's cult of domesticity. Males had to resist protecting family and providing for them. majority of blacks were christian due to the great awakening's influence on the slave owners and with christ being their only option to escape such horror and give hope to their lives. music. developed turned into praise and worship from old hems that were song about being free and emotional

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