Here it begins her beauty becomes her curse. It has been recorded that Black women were frequently punished by the wives and families of enslavers for being “desirable” to the man of the house. Men and children oftentimes shared the same fate from male and female enslavers. Women weren’t the only ones subjected to this forcible violation. She could be raped and beaten in the morning and watch her children sold on the auction block that same afternoon. How would you cope if your body wasn’t yours? If someone owned you and could violate you whenever they saw fit?Īn enslaved woman had no right to her body, or the offspring of her body. That means most of our recorded history starts in the most disgusting moral period for this country: American slavery. I can’t explain how difficult that is to type. Most Black people don’t know which country in Africa their ancestors came from.
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