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. For many years female slaves were underrepresented in history. During the 19th century slave women were depicted as mothers and caregivers, but they were often the abuse victims of their white slave owners. In the following, I will answer the question of what does the existence of slavery reveal to us about life in 19th century America? I will also discuss the role of slave women and the myth of the mammy that surrounded them during this time period. As we all know, slave owners did not make a difference between men and women when dividing work. Women could work alongside their men out in the fields but most of them did work in the houses. However, Female slaves, who worked in the household, were often subjected to cruel beatings and rapes. Sexual relationships between masters and their female slaves were extremely common during these times. These forced sexual relationships most often took the form of cruel beatings and savage rapes. According to Douglass, who witnessed an overseer beating a woman said, " he would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin" (42). Although most sexual relations between master and female s
Throughout the nineteenth century, slave women were dominated by their masters and had to conform to the social bearings of the society back then. What was a mammy? Well, the mammy as describe by White, "mammy was the woman who could do anything, and do it better than anyone else" (47). Blacks carried a big burden because of slavery, but Black women had to carry an even bigger burden. Everyone was brother and sister because the same institution was oppressing them. I think that the institution of slavery during the nineteenth century tell us that the American society was not living up to the laws by which it hah created by the forefathers. This conflict would often result in the sale or severe punishment of a slave. Of all the slaves, Black women were the ones who suffered the most. So, Black females relatives took the role of a father figure. The mammy myth is just another stereotype created by slave owners. When black women became pregnant, she was still not excused from her daily chores. Nevertheless, slave women were not jezebels or mammies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Women were known to be inferior to men and Blacks were inferior to whites. However, this kind of relationship would spark a problem between the slave owner and his wife. The institution of slavery has been the worse event in America's history, I hope that as individuals we will all learn from this travesty and work towards a better future.
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