How did both slaveholders and slaves use the concept of paternalism to their advantage?

Southern whites used paternalism to justify slavery as an institution; often arguing that the slaves needed care, feeding, discipline, and moral and religious education that they could provide. Slaves used it to feign ignorance by playing into the slaveholder's paternalistic perceptions of them, and found opportunities to resist their condition and gain a degree of freedom and autonomy

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