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The diaries and journals of slaveholders afford the opportunity to gain an intimate glimpse into the mindset and behavior of that group. These accounts are intriguing due to their private disposition at the time their authors composed them. Based on the content, masters viewed their own writings as a chance to be frank and straightforward about the realities of slave ownership, as opposed to the published articles that would be widely read across the area. Landon Carter, James Henry Hammond, and others offer commentaries on slave ownership that touch upon common themes across a few decades and presented unique perspectives on direct interactions with master and slave and the fear of slavery being eliminated. Slaveholders used their pages as an opportunity to describe the tensions they felt on a daily basis with the attempted control of their slaves, in addition to the uneasiness of their social position with a wary eye towards the future.
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