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Some of the most barbaric forms of punishment resulting in the mutilation and permanent scarring of female servants were devised by white mistresses in the heat of passion." [5] A constant source of anxiety, sexual abuse was a possibility both from black and white men on plantations.
7 Νοε 2022 · Historians of slavery should extend their analysis to consider the “violent, rapacious, “quotidian context” of plantation slavery” as an essential element in the story of American warfare. The sexual violence enslaved women endured represented a form of organized war against the bodies of women.
Enslaved people were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, rape, and imprisonment. Punishment was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was performed to re-assert the dominance of the enslaver (or overseer) over the enslaved person.
5 Σεπ 2024 · Enslaved women’s crime showed that the system never constituted cultural hegemony. Instead, enslaved women helped develop a higher order of justice grounded in freedom, bodily autonomy, and kinship. The victories for that higher order are few in this nation, but they have and will come.
10 Ιαν 2014 · Black and white women lived in close proximity, with jealousy, violence, and sexual abuse part of everyday life. Slaveholding women were often unable to see enslaved women as victims.
19 Φεβ 2021 · In her new book, A Kick in the Belly, Afrocentric British historian Stella Dadzie describes how her research into slavery-era documents reveals the lives of enslaved Black women in the Caribbean colonies and the American South. The phrase “kicked in the belly” summarizes the abuse enslaved women endured—but they also resisted, rebelled ...
4 Φεβ 2022 · Free African American women who attempted to assist family members to escape slavery could be accused of slave stealing, as the 1744 case of Esther Roberts, who was alleged to have stolen her enslaved spouse, Stepney, illustrates.
