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962:,” in an effort to stymie abusive practices. Others used the concept to rationalize planter rule, claiming themselves sovereigns of their households who provided for all constituent members, and demanding their loyalty and labor in return. Drawing on the Roman precedent in this way, these planters claimed that their enslaved laborers were their “dependents,” who ultimately benefitted from the paternalistic ordering of the household. Southern newspapers and print media repeatedly promoted this idea in order to square the intrinsic brutality that defined the institution of slavery with the democratic ideals the nation was supposedly founded on, often developing this paternalistic ideology to irrational heights and ignoring the contradictions that it masked. This paternalistic ideology persisted after the legal abolition of slavery, as white employers and political leaders in the South attempted to maintain a hierarchical socioeconomic class status over formerly enslaved persons, as well as women and poor laborers, whom they viewed as “dependents,” thereby expanding the Roman household model of 384: 994:, women were “most celebrated” for their roles as mothers and wives, but also participated in independent market activity and in communal defense. As a sizable proportion of enslaved people transported to the New World in the trans-Atlantic trade originated from Akan, MandĂ©, and Igbo societies, some historians have noted a connection between the matrilineal elements of these West African cultures and the centrality of women and mothers in enslaved peoples’ family units. These alternative modes of structuring household and family life among enslaved people threatened some planters’ intentions to serve as the solely acknowledged 1705: 504:
therefore fell to the head of the household and no other. As well as observance of common rites and festivals (including those marked by domestic rites), each family had its own unique internal religious calendar—marking the formal acceptance of infant children, coming of age, marriages, deaths and
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extended and modified the laws in relation to intermarriage between social classes and inheritance. Compliance was rewarded and exceptional public duty brought exemption, but dictatorial compulsion was deeply unpopular and quite impractical. The laws were later softened in theory and practise, but
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and to the broader community. He had a duty to father and raise healthy children as future citizens of Rome, to maintain the moral propriety and well-being of his household, to honour his clan and ancestral gods and to dutifully participate—and if possible, serve—in Rome's political, religious and
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maintained honor and status within their communities by fulfilling both the material and spiritual needs of all members of the household, including enslaved persons. This included providing for the food, clothing, shelter, education, and baptism of enslaved persons. When they reneged on these
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In the Roman tradition, the term has appeared mostly in legal texts, and to a lesser extent, in literary texts. In both types of discourses, the term has been most commonly used to refer to the “estate owner,” a title considered conceptually separate from his familial relations.
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weakened, and rights that theoretically existed were no longer enforced or insisted upon. The power over life and death was abolished, the right of punishment was moderated and the sale of children was restricted to cases of extreme necessity. Under Emperor
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obligations, the law code considered them to forfeit their right to ownership of their enslaved, leading in some cases to disputes between paternal heads of household over the status of enslaved persons whom they each claimed to have “raised.”
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over his wife depended on the form of marriage between them. In the Early Republic, a wife was "handed over" from the legal control of her father to the legal control of (the father of) her husband in the form of marriage
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The patriarchal mode of slavery that Southern U.S. and Caribbean slaveowners attempted to establish often clashed with the familial structures enslaved people themselves constructed. Some of these family structures had
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held authority, they were recognized as distinct from family members (wives, children, and grandchildren). Despite these distinctions, what all members of the household shared was their subjecthood to the authority, or
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held sole rights to its disposal and sole responsibility for the consequences, including personal forfeiture of rights and property through debt. Those who lived in their own households at the time of the death of the
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wielded over members of the immediate family as strictly gendered, i.e., male. Nonetheless, historians and legal scholars have often overlooked this exception to the rule that allowed some women
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wielded complete and separate authority over members of their households, including their enslaved laborers. In cases of adjudicating legal transgressions committed by enslaved persons,
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to recognize servant laborers and enslaved persons as members of the domestic household, roughly equal in status to family members given their subjecthood to the authority of the
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Galinsky, 130–2. Augustus couched the changes and similar ones as a restoration of traditional values. In one debate, he reiterated a "misogynistic" address of 131 BCE by the
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thus connoted heads of household who were thought to combine the affective tenderness of a father with the stern coercion of a slaveowner in ordering their households.
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would gather to offer sacrifice(s) to the gods for the protection and fertility of fields and livestock. All such festivals and offerings were presided over by the
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probably involved the most senior members of his own household, especially his wife, and, if necessary, his peers and seniors within his extended clan (
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while he lived. Legally, any property acquired by individual family members (sons, daughters or slaves) was acquired for the family estate: the
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compelled marriage upon men and women within specified age ranges and remarriage on the divorced and bereaved within certain time limits. The
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and, thus, from the legal relationship between slaveowners and their enslaved laborers rather than that between fathers and children. Since
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was the oldest living male in a household, and could legally exercise autocratic authority over his extended family. The term is
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came to be understood as one’s capacity to own property. However, in Roman law, this was considered a distinct dimension of the
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has been interpreted as the essential, heritable spirit (or divine essence, or soul) and generative power that suffused the
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through ancient right. In practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised. It was eventually limited by law.
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was expected to be a good citizen. In theory at least, he held powers of life and death over every member of his extended
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might intervene if the observation of sacra privata was lax or improper). The responsibility for funding and executing
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to structure the legal, cultural, and social relationships between slaveowners and enslaved people. The law code of
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Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South
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referred to “a body of slaves,” and did not refer to wives and children. The classical legal concept of
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Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
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asters of Violence The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia
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provided, however, that if a child had been sold as a slave three times, he was no longer subject to
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had the right to take legal action on her own behalf but not to administer legal matters for others.
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rather than the state) and "unofficial" (not a rite of state office or magistracy, though the state
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edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), 254.
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Outside of the Roman context, various slavery regimes in world history have adopted the concept of
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as the basis of the concept of “head of household”—over the alternative Latin word for slaveowner,
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had become rare, and a woman legally remained part of her birth family, under the hand of their
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permitted enslaved individuals in their households to establish quasi-marital unions (known as
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and the increasing intrusion of the state into the juridical and executive independence of the
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from the early classical period onwards, the minimum qualification for assuming the status of
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remained. Its public magistrates now legally over-rode the traditional rights of the family
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severely penalised adulterous wives and any husbands who tolerated such behaviour. The
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of his sons and daughters; however, an edict of Emperor Augustus provided that the
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means "with hand"). If the man divorced his wife, he or his father had to give the
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and each of its members. As the singular, lawful head of a family derived from a
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and composed of individual “clans or lineages,” descended from a single mother.
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Richard P. Saller, "'Familia, Domus,' and the Roman Conception of the Family,"
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on marriage as necessary to Rome's survival. Limited preview via Google Books:
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to them in their capacity as slaveowners. In general, however, the status of
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Debra Blumenthal, "Enemies or Extended Family? Slaves in the Household," in
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for "father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate". The form is
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and the slaves, but some of the duties were recognized not by the original
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had a duty to exemplify, enjoin and, if necessary, enforce, so within the
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moderated his authority and determined his responsibilities to his own
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Roman legal sources often recognized enslaved people as part of the
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might own one or several homes. All members and properties of a
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was expected to adhere to the core principles and laws of the
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was conceived of as an economic and juridical unit or estate:
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As Roman jurists began to articulate the legal conception of
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as “head of household” derived from this early conception of
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through his pious fulfillment of ancestral obligations. The
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also had a series of extra duties: duties towards the
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as a microcosm of the Roman state. In Roman law, the
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was official but distinct from that of magistrates.
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See Beard 706:remained under the authority of their 505:burials. In rural estates, the entire 36:Head of the household (disambiguation) 1596:John Hearne, "Landscape With Faces," 1419:Sclaves Molt Fortes, Senyors Invalts: 1297: 1295: 1211:, vol. 1, 49: citing Cato the Elder, 1066:, Oxford University Press, 2004, p486 898:could not be fully extended to women 429:. The latter were represented by the 407:The domestic responsibilities of the 276:, which were decisions by committee ( 7: 1665:Parkin, Tim, & Pomeroy, Arthur, 1628:Beard, M., Price, S., North, J., 1613:Beard, M., Price, S., North, J., 423:) and the ancestral gods of his own 1667:Roman Social History, a Sourcebook, 1660:Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity, 986:, while more often organized along 928:fifteenth-century Valencian society 633:had the power to approve or reject 211:were subject to the authority of a 54: 1658:Huebner, S. R, Ratzan, D. M. eds. 1516:(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982). 1417:§798. See also Debra Blumenthal, " 1232:, p. 45. Usborne Publishing, 2002. 727:over their respective households ( 328:Lex Julia de adulteriis coercendis 181:originally meant the group of the 25: 1662:Cambridge University Press, 2009. 1525:Steve Estes, "Pater Familias" in 1049:genitive form that survived into 966:to the level of broader society. 1733:New York, Robert Appleton, 1913. 1703: 141:, freedmen and slaves. The same 1401:The Ancient Mediterranean World 1341:The Freedman in the Roman World 972:roots in West African societies 415:) to his "household gods" (the 306:. Augustus was not only Rome's 121:) established the power of the 30:For the 2003 Italian film, see 1645:A Casebook on Roman Family Law 1600:47, no. 1 (March 2001): 61-62. 1330:38, no. 4 (Winter, 1984): 343. 1079:. 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Index

Patria potestas
Pater Familias (film)
Head of the household (disambiguation)
Roman family
Latin
archaic
genitive
Latin declension
first declension
Roman citizen
Roman law
mos majorum
children
clients
Roman household
social unit
domus
potestas
Roman citizen
status
Twelve Tables
Augustus
the morality of marriage
Lex Julia
Lex Julia de adulteriis coercendis
Lex Papia Poppaea
quaestio perpetua

Gens
Genius (mythology)

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