I apologize that my post is less of a single question and more of a series of questions. Right now I'm trying to write a paper on paternalism in antebellum Virginia. I'm trying to connect that model of slavery to integration and the Civil Rights movement up until the mid 1960s. I've made some progress and the paper will do fine, but I wanted to know what the more knowledgable members of the community thought of my topic.
Eugene Genovese has an excellent book about this subject... See the book:
Fatal Self-Deception: Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Most of the Paternalist doctrine used to justify slavery in the Antebellum South died out in the decades after the Civil War. Here, whites no longer needed to justify slavery, and the associated paternalist system. Rather, whites campaigned to distance themselves from blacks, through segregation and political terrorism.