Unfortunately in that time period the slave owner was usually in control what happened in a slave marriage. ... With their children, especially their daughters, they had their most enduring and cherished relationships. ... It was the duty of the mother to make sure their daughters don't get caught up with any of that. According to White, "A slave mother's uneasiness during her daughter's adolescence also grew out of her desire to protect her daughter from the responsibilities of adulthood. Mothers seemed to want girls to grow up slowly, and so they tried to limit their daugh...

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The tradition of treating women as property in the south made it difficult for people to see the immediate effects of the abuse, but over time it became clear that slave women and men were treated very differently. ... Female slaves had a much more difficult time being a slave then men, for example they had to put up with the sexual abuse from their masters and also raise their children alone. ... It even affected slave owners negatively without them even knowing it, sexual abuse caused the country as a whole to take a step back and made it difficult for families to feel the necessary connecti...

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The average enslaved female gave birth for the first time at nineteen years old and afterwards, birthed one child every 2.5 years. ... Perhaps even more distressing than that, a women may have to see her own daughters experience the same fate; "When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. ... As historian Scarborough said, "(the) principal task of the elite slaveholder to keep their servants relatively contented with their inferior status while at the same time, extracting the maximum labour from them". ... The period of sl...

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Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 to the daughter of a former indentured slave, an African American woman named Molly Walsh, who emigrated from England and was in bondage for seven years. ... He had an eighth grade education by the time he turned 15 and took over the operations of the family farm. ... In Benjamin Banneker's studying of the stars, he was the first to notice and write about the Star of Sirius, being two stars instead of one, challenging the astronomers of his time. ... He was also the first scientist to study the relativity of time and space two centuries before Einstei...

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Although the forms of slavery have evolved since Wilberforce's time, there is still an issue remaining throughout the United States and internationally. ... Prostitutes are released back into the streets in no time after paying the fines. ...

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She was a commoner among royals, revolting against the societal norms of her time with her vulgar, yet ingeniously crafty works. Behn's influence extends far beyond being just a writer of her time period; rather, she left a mark as a pillar of English literature. ... Her works and the influences they cast prove Aphra Behn to be a dramatist worthy of the ranks of other famous British writers of this time period. ... Historians have pieced together that she was born in Kent in 1640, and she was the second daughter of a barber, Bartholomew Johnson, and a wet nurse, Elizabeth Denham [ CITAT...

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On the other hand, like most puritans of her time, Mary Rowlandson wrote to discover God's purpose in her life. ... Both captives were separated from their families; interestingly, both had a female relative (a daughter for Mary Rowlandson and a sister for Olaudah Equiano) who was also a captive and later reunited. ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides i...

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