What attitudes towards slavery did slave owners hold

During work and outside of it, slaves suffered physical abuse, since the government allowed it. Treatment was usually harsher on large plantations, which were often managed by overseers and owned by absentee slaveholders. Small slaveholders worked together with their slaves and sometimes treated them more humanely.

the answer would be a)henry grady because he came up with the term "new south"

the first question's answer is a.