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I think it is important that Angelina Grimke Weld continually emphasizes the the cruel mistress in question is "at the head of the fashionable elite city of Charleston" and more importantly "at the head of the moral and religious female society there." It is astounding that someone who claims to be of moral and pious authority can be so abusive and uncaring. However, the violence against the slaves is justified by slaveholders because slaves are viewed as property and not actual human beings. -- Clare O. | I think it is important that Angelina Grimke Weld continually emphasizes the the cruel mistress in question is "at the head of the fashionable elite city of Charleston" and more importantly "at the head of the moral and religious female society there." It is astounding that someone who claims to be of moral and pious authority can be so abusive and uncaring. However, the violence against the slaves is justified by slaveholders because slaves are viewed as property and not actual human beings. -- Clare O. | ||
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| + | This is an important source because it shows a woman who is part of a large slave-holding family realizing the atrocity of the slave system. One particularly important realization is that "Men and women are punished when their masters and mistresses are brutes and not when they do wrong..." This notion is related to that of "The Cruel Mistress," in which the mistress would punish at her own whim regardless of whether the slaves had erred. Regardless of this insight, Chesnut still closes with "my countrywomen are as pure as angels - tho surrounded by another race who are -- the social evil!" It seems that Chesnut believes the institution of slavery is wrong but not the idea of racism. --Clare O. | ||
== Yee "Free Black Women in Abolitionist Movement" == | == Yee "Free Black Women in Abolitionist Movement" == | ||
This article recounts what most of the primary sources describe, which is slave women's lives were extremely difficult. They had to worry about family, separation, forced sexual relations, sexual abuse, work, being a housekeeper, and so much more. African American slave women dealt with so much under the system of patriarchy because not only were they under the white master, but the white mistress, and her "husband" as well. Her life was always in an imbalance and in survival mode. --Michelle M. | This article recounts what most of the primary sources describe, which is slave women's lives were extremely difficult. They had to worry about family, separation, forced sexual relations, sexual abuse, work, being a housekeeper, and so much more. African American slave women dealt with so much under the system of patriarchy because not only were they under the white master, but the white mistress, and her "husband" as well. Her life was always in an imbalance and in survival mode. --Michelle M. | ||
