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But until further developments on the statistical front: are brought to bear on this problem, the historian will have to deal with the evidence he has, with all the common sense he can command. Because the slave had the same human emotional needs and biological urges all others have, the historian has got to remember that if these needs had not been met at least halfway, irreparable damage would have ensued, and disorder would have proliferated. Some historians have tried to have it both ways, describing a totally dehumanizing institution that dehumanized nobody.

The Civil War revealed strong family feeling among freedmen. In 1865 freedmen all over the South were seeking former wives, husbands, children, and parents. Perhaps the sanest evaluation feasible at the present state of research is that fathers had less influence than mothers on the development of the child's personality, but that both mothers and fathers of slaves were involved in the same business parents arc always engaged in: the process of socializing their children for the world they know, and in making the child conformable to the general peace.

17 He might have stood for a portrait for George Balcombe, the fictional creation of Beverley Tucker, who is given to say, "I am well pleased with the established order of things. I see subordination everywhere. And when I find the subordinate con28 The Domestication of Domestic Slavery tent with his actual conditions, and recognizing his place in the scale of being, ... "18 But the domestic world men like Chesnut ruled and Tucker described was more complex than a "patriarchy," despite the planter's awesome legal power.

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