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I noticed in one of the testimonies that a woman whose father was a white slaver owner and her mother a slave described her mother as being very light skinned and favored amongst the white. That seemed to be a pattern in the literature on the south that I have read that those who were light skinned were more likely to be exploited into having sexual relations with their masters. Would women like her and mulatto children have been treated differently by their fellow slaves? I wonder if they would have been resentful and bitter towards these women and children even though they were almost always the victims. -Emma Peck | I noticed in one of the testimonies that a woman whose father was a white slaver owner and her mother a slave described her mother as being very light skinned and favored amongst the white. That seemed to be a pattern in the literature on the south that I have read that those who were light skinned were more likely to be exploited into having sexual relations with their masters. Would women like her and mulatto children have been treated differently by their fellow slaves? I wonder if they would have been resentful and bitter towards these women and children even though they were almost always the victims. -Emma Peck | ||
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| + | I thought it was really sad to read about the exploitation of black women and slaves. These women seemed to be the last ones on the totem pole. They were described as genderless. Not only were they forced to have sex with white men, but they were also forced at times to mate with black men to reproduce the type of offspring that the master wanted. I think it's despicable that after a woman got pregnant that she was forced to work in the fields or forced to do work in general and at the same time received physical abuse. I did like the ending of the essay, however, that even though these women received such treatment they had faith that the future would be different. -Amy Van Ness | ||
