She had accustomed them to constant industry, and unqualified obedience to her directions; and for this reason, no one had found it necessary to interfere in their management.
Pride was a large ingredient in Phillis's composition.

Although her husband presented one of the blackest visages the sun ever shone upon, Phillis appeared to hold in small esteem the ordinary servants on the plantation.
She was constantly chiding her children for using their expressions, and tried to keep them in the house with white people as much as possible, that they might acquire good manners.

It was quite a grief to her that Bacchus had not a more genteel dialect than the one he used.

She had a great deal of family pride; there was a difference in her mind between family servants and those employed in field labor.

For "the quality" she had the highest respect; for "poor white people" only a feeling of pity.