Thornwell wrote in the July 1850 issue of the Southern Presbyterian Review that the requirement of the rule as it pertained to the master/slave relationship was only that “we should treat our slaves as we feel we ought to be treated if we were slaves ourselves.”36 Thornwell was silent about how it was possible for a master to place himself in the condition of a slave and how masters were to respond when they discovered the slaves’ foremost desire was for freedom. One aspect of paternalism is the confusion of one’s desire and self-interest with the Other’s: it is the practicing of a “hegemony
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