ructure characterizing all slave societies, and that racism was an overlay peculiar to the social structure of the American South. Genovese also recognized that black and white "created a historically unique kind of paternalistic society" in the American South. Slavery in the American South rose from "the necessity to discipline and morally justify a system of exploitation . . . The racial distinction between master and slave heightened the tension inherent in an unjust social order."
One of the factors that distinguished slavery in the American South and that in the Caribbean was the pattern of American slave owners residing on their plant
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