Slave-owners
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slave-owners · Southern fanatics · the Southern planter · the whites
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Slaveholders of the American South, whose rule over slaves is analyzed as resting on opinion, and whose belief in the benefits of slavery is treated as a genuine but self-interested delusion.
And so true is this observation that the authority even of a Southern planter over his slaves rested at bottom upon the opinion of the negroes whom he at his pleasure flogged or killed.
Some Southerners at least did undoubtedly hold the bona fide belief that slavery was the source of benefit, not only to the planters, but to the slaves, and indirectly to the whole civilised world.
Law in a Free State
Historical owners of slaves who invested their slaves as capital in productive ventures, invoked as an analogy for the proposed capitalisation of free labour.
When slave-owners invest their slaves in an adventure, their share of the profits or losses (i.