What I'm really wondering about is two things:

1. Did the nature of the southern elite family dynamic create space for white southern women to attempt (however fruitlessly I assume) to regulate their husbands' and sons' behavior and did they comment on it?

2. Did southern religious leaders attempt to publicly comment, whether explicitly or euphemistically, on the social and/or Biblical sins of wealthy southern men? I imagine this is pretty unlikely, given their explicit endorsement of the slave society they lived in and the fact that some of them may have been perpetrators of those same things, but the possibility is intriguing to me.

Thank you