During slavery, white Europeans, established hierarchies and maintained power over black people by constructing and constantly manipulating the definitions of "race," "identity" and "culture". In the Caribbean and southern United States white Europeans enslaved black Africans. They established and encouraged the stereotype that Blacks were violent, ignorant and uncivilized. Further, they truly believed that Blacks were non-human. Europeans committed atrocious human rights violations against an entire "race" of people. Europeans justified their actions by inventing false logic and promoting propaganda throughout the Caribbean and United States.
             First of all, the identity of the black women is viewed as a stereotype.
             During slavery white people saw the black women as being physically strong, masculine animalistic, and non human when compared to white women who are seen as pure, delicate, and fragile. Curiously, considering this awful description and image of the black women, white men still viewed them as promiscuous. When slave women arrived in the Caribbean and/or United States they were barely clothed. White people were taught that this nakedness reflected promiscuity in the black woman. The white men used this false notion of promiscuity as justification to rape these women without any feelings of guilt. according to the text of Brenda E. Stevenson, Gender Convention, Ideals, and Identity Among Antebellum Virginia Slave Women (p.171). Whites saw black women as non-human, but they still wanted their body and the pleasure of having sex with them. In many cases the black women were forced to concede because if they didn't obey, they ran the risk of being beat to death. Still many preferred to resist rape and take their chances. Mary Prince, a West Indian slave states:
             " He had an ugly fashion of stripping himself quite naked
             and ordering me then to wash him in a tub of...