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But, like, so the fuck what Even if every slaveowner outsourced this job to "low-class" overseers, those overseers were white It's completely logical that enslaved people might come up with a slur for white people comparing them to those overseers
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The whips existed, that's not in serious historical dispute, you can see fucking photographs of people's fucking scars
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The whole myth of the "noble slaveowner" is part and parcel of Lost Cause ideology. Slaveowners were basically never benevolent masters. Some of especially wealthy ones paid people to brutalize their slaves, but most did it all by themselves. Some even enjoyed it.
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Yes, you can find individual instances of conscientious slaveowners who treated (some of) their slaves as valued resources, and sometimes even almost as if they were actually people, but those were the exception, not the norm.
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