How did both slaveholders and slaves use the concept of paternalism to their advantage?

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18 February, 14:24

How did both slaveholders and slaves use the concept of paternalism to their advantage?

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Some slave owners defended that slaves needed care, feeding, discipline and moral because they could not have that for themselves. So slave owners should provide them that, this was also used as a way to misguide slavery to their advantage.

Many slaves used paternalism to their advantage by finding opportunities to resist their conditions and gain a degree of freedom and autonomy.