Among other things, following @Every3Minutes has really brought home to me a fatal flaw in Genovese's "paternalism" thesis.
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@HeerJeet@tanehisicoates J. W. C. Pennington made the point trenchantly in 1849. Check out the preface: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/penning49/penning49.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet most *slaveowners* paternalist, most *slaves* owned by factory-farming slavelords… -
@delong Right, which means paternalism was pure ideology. Yet Genovese treated it as more concrete social relation. - Show replies
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