 Slave children quickly learned that they were subject to the direction of both their parents and their owners.They saw their parents disciplined just as they came to realize that they also could be physically or verbally abused by their owners.Historians writing during this era include John Blassingame ("Slave Community"), Eugene Genovese ("Roll, Jordan, Roll"), Leslie Howard Owens ("This Species of Property"), and Herbert Gutman ("The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom").