The planter class acted based on an ideal of medieval chivalry, emulating English feudal nobles. This ideal of _____ required deferential treatment on the part of the lower classes and for the head of the plantation to act as a kindly father to his “inferiors.” While southern wives were supposed to support and uphold this ideal, _____ wrote in her diary the reality of her experience with slavery, which she called a “monstrous system” because of the reality that the mistress’s husband was the “father of all the mulatto children” on the plantation.