The term paternalism as applied to the system of plantation authority in the antebellum South means that
A. slaveholders regarded slaves as childlike inferiors who needed protection.
B. American slavery was comparatively mild.
C. slaveholders were benevolent.
D. slaves in many cases had family-like relationships with their master's household.
Answer: A
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