What Did Mary Boykin Chesnut, the Wife of a South

What did Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a South Carolina slave owner, mean when she described the plantation elite in her diary as being part of "a monstrous system"?

A) White masters sexually abused their female slaves and rarely acknowledged fathering mixed-race slave children.
B) Plantation mistresses frequently whipped their house slaves, often more violently than how a man would administer the punishment.
C) Planters sometimes had loving, long-term intimate relationships with female slaves, which Chesnut believed to be immoral.
D) Plantation mistresses lived hard lives in relative isolation with infrequent contact with outsiders.