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To respond to Emma's post, I feel like a lot of slave mistresses treated slaves as children. They often look down on the slaves and think of them as inferior, just as if they were children. As for the fact that many slave owners sought to keep their slaves, I feel it was out of habit and necessity. They didn't want anyone else to do the work and they still felt that it was the proper place for the black to serve them. I really don't feel it was out of kindness at all. - Christine | To respond to Emma's post, I feel like a lot of slave mistresses treated slaves as children. They often look down on the slaves and think of them as inferior, just as if they were children. As for the fact that many slave owners sought to keep their slaves, I feel it was out of habit and necessity. They didn't want anyone else to do the work and they still felt that it was the proper place for the black to serve them. I really don't feel it was out of kindness at all. - Christine | ||
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| + | Mary Anderson’s account raises some interesting questions about some freed slaves. How often did slaves return to their old masters? How did their relationships with their previous masters change if they did go back? For Mary Anderson, it seemed like the temperament of her masters played a role in her family’s return. Her family seemed to be favored, or at least she was, as she got something of an education. If they were treated with relative kindness from their masters, did that make it more likely for ex-slaves to return? -- Taylor Brann | ||
== Katie Darling, in TX == | == Katie Darling, in TX == | ||
