[goldfinch]

Slave owners, as a general rule, believed they behaved in a novelty manner.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. Spell check zapped me. Somehow it managed to change the work 'benevolent' (which I had misspelled) to 'novelty'...and it posted when I went to change it back. I hate it when that happens. So when reading the above post, replace 'novelty' with 'benevolent'.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I rather like the original better. How can a computer commit a Freudian slip? The Id in the Machine?