How to Train Negroes to Accept the Master's Code of Good Conduct

The third step in the training process was to awe the slaves with a sense of the master's enormous power. The fourth aspect was the attempt to persuade the bondsmen to take an interest in the master's enterprise and to accept his standards of good conduct. Here then was the way to produce a perfect slave, a custom hymn to rigid discipline, demand from him unconditional surrender,. develop in him a paralyzing fear of white men., instill in him a sense of complete dependence.