For many enslaved African On Slaveholders’ Sexual Abuse of ...

National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox The Making of African American Identity: Vol. I, 1500-1865 For many enslaved African Americans, one of the cruelest hardships they endured was Sexual Abuse by the slave-holders, overseers, and other white men and women whose power to dominate them was complete. enslaved women were forced to submit to their masters Sexual advances, perhaps bearing children who would engender the rage of a master s wife, and from whom they might be separated forever as a result. Masters forcibly paired good breeders to produce strong children they could sell at a high price.

Washington where she was set free. . . This attack was the result of being goodlooking, for which many a poor girl in Charles County paid the price. There are several cases I could mention, but they are distasteful to me. . . . There was a doctor in the neighborhood who bought a girl and installed her on the place for his own

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