Paternalism: Christian Citizenship

History essay 4 In nineteenth century, paternalism also calls "Christian guardianship". In quote "The concept of paternalism denied that the form of slavery practiced in the South was brutal and exploitative."(404) As we can see, paternalism was kind of hegemonism. It was implicit criticism individual freedom and rights. Also embodies the result of chauvinism. Paternalism was applied to the system of beliefs, which serve in slavery in American. On the other hand, chivalry its follows was the honor, brave moral of ethics and the thought spirit. According to definition in wiki, chivalry was established by economic development and the Christian church standardizes the social of behavior. Otherwise, chivalry has new attitude towards women
"We should endeavor, with those whom fortune has thrown on our hands, to feed and clothe them well, protect them from ill usage....and our duties to them"(405) quote by Thomas Jefferson in 1814. As he says, paternalism was a tool for maintain American slavery system and remind those masters how to plan a long-team development for slave to gain more wealth from them. Many of slave owners realize that the best way could maximize the values of slave was natural reproduction and promote their health. On the surface, I believe the paternalism of spirit as well as that of the progress of society, but look at this abhorrent act were to be implemented; a form of accumulation of wealth at the expense of slave's welfare and life which was
Most accepted the role of wife, mother, and runner of the household without the power traditionally attached to that title. Their plantation big houses were basically overgrown farm houses. Kitchens were detached and the slave quarters were usually far away from the main house so as to keep them out of the site of the master and his family. A good plantation mistress oversaw food, managed the kitchen garden and worked the gardens, pickled foods and oversaw salting pork. Growing up in a rural environment, daughters learned to write, shoot, and ride. Then, when they reached puberty, mothers taught them more feminine things, like how to ride, sew, dance and sing. They were expected to become all the things that their mothers and grandmothers before them had been. These women were losing their property to the men when they got married, the men that became their husbands which impossible to get divorce at all. On the other end, the men were responsible for these women and they were bound to protect them. The lives of black slave women in the South were dramatically suffering because they were treated more like cattle and worthless beings. Black slave women not only had to withstand the physical labor that they were expected to do, but they withstood the constant sexual advances from their masters. If this happened the woman didn’t have a choice. She had to reciprocate.