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

Question

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.

Answer 1

Answer: A