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en-wikipedia-org-7904		Pater familias - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4825	512	57	In Roman family law, the term "Patria potestas" (Latin: "power of a father") refers to this concept.[2] He held legal privilege over the property of the familia, and varying levels of authority over his dependents: these included his wife and children, certain other relatives through blood or adoption, clients, freedmen and enslaved persons. 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.[32][33][34] 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 pater familias to the level of broader society.[35][36]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7904.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7904.txt