In what way was the south a paternalistic society during the days of slavery?
a. white men followed pursuits such as horseback riding, while white women followed “ladylike” pursuits such as sewing.
b. by using slave labor, plantation owners freed their own children from having to work in the farm fields.
c. slaveholders believed they enslaved people by providing food, shelter, and clothing while relieving them of responsibility.
d. white southerners who did not have enslaved workers found they were often treated like children by those who did.

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In the antebellum South, slavery was the string that held the stuff of society together and described the southern woman. The Old South, as it would later be related to, was political, culturally, economically, and spiritually developed around the system of slavery. Slavery was the basis the strict southern regime was based upon. Race and gender defined a person’s status with white slaveholding males at the top and black female slaves at the bottom. Slaveholders, large and small, were at the summit of the Southern society and the feasibility of future slave buying kept non-slaveholding families attached to this paternalistic authority.  

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