1. What evidence does Chesnut offer to support her allegation aboutinterracial sexual relations between owners and enslaved women.What value judgements does she make? Why does she call slavery “ amonstrous system”?

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Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861)

I wonder if it be a sin to think slavery a curse to any land.Sumner said not one word of this hated institution which is nottrue. Men & women are punished when their masters &mistresses are brutes & not when they do wrong-& then welive surrounded by prostitutes. An abandoned woman is sent out ofany decent house elsewhere. Who thinks any worse of a Negro orMulatto woman for being a thing we can't name. God forgive us, butours is a monstrous system & wrong & iniquity. Perhaps therest of the world is as bad. This is only what I see: like thepatriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives& their concubines, & the Mulattos one sees in every familyexactly resemble the white children-& every lady tells you whois the father of all the Mulatto children in everybody's household,but those in her own, she seems to think drop from the clouds orpretends so to think-. Good women we have, but they talk ofnastiness tho they never do wrong; they talk day & night of -.My disgust sometimes is boiling over-but they are, I believe, inconduct the purest women God ever made. Thank God for mycountrywomen-alas for the men! No worse than men everywhere, butthe lower their mistresses, the more degraded they must be.

My mother-in-law told me when I was first married not to send myfemale servants in the street on errands. They were there tempted,led astray-& then she said placidly, \"So they told me when Icame here-& I was very particular, but you see with whatresult.\" Mr. Harris said it was so patriarchal. So it is-flocks& herds & slaves-& wife Leah does not suffice. Rachelmust be added, if not married & all the time they seem to thinkthemselves patterns-models of husbands & fathers.

Mrs. Davis told me \"everybody described my husband's father asan odd character, a Millionaire who did nothing for his sonwhatever, left him to struggle with poverty,\" &c. I replied,\"Mr. Chesnut Senior thinks himself the best of fathers-& hisson thinks likewise. I have nothing to say-but it is true, he hasno money but what he makes as a lawyer,\" &c. Again I say, mycountrywomen are as pure as angels-tho surrounded by another racewho are-the social evil!