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On page 5 Trealease writes about the belief that Emancipation increased the Southern white rape complex because freedom presumably stimulated the Negro's innate passion for white women and removed external restrains. What are your thoughts about this supreme taboo that was held by Southern whites?- Nick | On page 5 Trealease writes about the belief that Emancipation increased the Southern white rape complex because freedom presumably stimulated the Negro's innate passion for white women and removed external restrains. What are your thoughts about this supreme taboo that was held by Southern whites?- Nick | ||
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| + | As Trelease states in the introduction, blacks were never advocating for supremacy of whites, simply equality. If whites saw blacks as incapable of taking care of their own wellbeing without a slavemaster, why were many so whites afraid of blacks rise to equality and feel the need maintain control over them? - Victoria Y. | ||
== Fahs/Waugh, "Anna Dickinson" == | == Fahs/Waugh, "Anna Dickinson" == | ||
