Reddit reviews Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

I think here the question become do the ends justify the means. In order to allow for a system that is built upon people being chattel for others, it requires actively subjugating them, and society has to be actively molded to allow for that subjugation.

Slaveholding changed southern culture. I think Genovese's Roll Jordan Roll: The world the slaves made does a very good job illustrating this. He states slavery created "a paternalism accepted by both masters and slave--but with radically different interpretations." Which requires masters "to see their slaves as acquiescent." These types of attitudes then shaded most of what is considered "Southern culture" to the point that it created a society of Slavery, that was actively maintained through the rule of law.