This article examines the
macroscopic reasons for maternal rage and its injection into slaveholder
children in the antebellum South.
It is argued that the misogyny that infected
antebellum life metastasized in southern mistresses and affected the way they felt
about themselves and their children. As mothers, they were casual parents,
concerned with molding the character of their charges, rearing warriors and
proper ladies, but uninterested in caring for them and helping them realize
their own aspirations. It is argued that the misanthropic rage that they
injected into their children constituted the poison that each generation of
slaveholders had to ventilate into poison containers, slaves, as a homeostatic
means of psycho-emotional survival.
This intergenerational process of poison
injection--from father to mother, from mother to child, from child to slave,
constituted the process that insured the perpetuation of the psychic structure
necessary for the continuation of slavery from generation to generation.
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