“Every person should be made perfectly to understand what they are punished for,” another planter added, “and should be made to perceive that they are not punished in anger, or through caprice.”15 Such advice came from the pages of periodicals such as De Bow’s Review, Southern Cultivator, Farmer’s Register, Carolina Planter, and Farmer and Planter, in articles “On the Management of Slaves,” “The Management of Negroes,” “Judicious Management of the Plantation Force,” “Moral Management of Negroes,” and “Management of Slaves.”
