In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery

question 100

Multiple Choice

In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that

• A) this southern institution embraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant "investments."
• B) southern slaveholders actually treated slaves with a kindly and caring paternalism throughout the lives of most slaves.
• C) blacks were inferior and submissive by nature, facilitating their participation in the institution of southern slavery.
• D) blacks did not abhor the coercive social and economic institution that enslaved them.
• E) this southern institution was not underpinned by racist attitudes by southern slaveholders and most other southerners as well.

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