Slave women were no more or less lustful than other women but in slavery their bodies did not command respect. ... Women's bodies were also exposed during whippings. ... Slaveholder sexism also made female slavery different from male slavery. ... More male than female slaves were artisans and craftsmen, so when slaveholders had a chance to hire skilled slaves from other plantations, they usually hired males. ... Some female fugitives like the celebrated Ellen Craft overcame this last impediment by disguising themselves as males. ...

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The fear of being executed caused Celia to burn the body in her fireplace. ... Gender roles in slavery were always different from the part that male had to play. Typically females got the easier of the jobs like picking cotton, cooking, cleaning or taking care of the main house; whereas males were forced to do more strenuous tasks. Even with working on the plantation both males and females were subjected to certain mistreating's they had to endure. Males if misbehaved were subjected to whippings; females were subjected to them too but not as often. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thus, in order to maximize the total labor accrued from a slave woman, she "had to be annulled as [a] woman, that is, as [a] woman in her historical stance of wardship under the entire male hierarchy". Therefore, she was schematized similarly to her male counterpart (in regards to gender identity), giving her supposedly "equal" authority to him. ... " Morgan writes that this beastly description represented to Ligon, and similarly-minded Europeans of the time, the sole utility of the black woman's body as a producer of crops and more laborers. Additionally, their...

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Aristotle states that those who possess natural insight should rule those who use their body for labor, and that this relationship is beneficial to both. ... He compares how some people rule over others to the way a soul rules over a body. ... He states that a statesman rules over free people, a master rules slaves, and a household is ruled by the eldest male. ...

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I wished to contemplate who I was beyond my body, this container of flesh. ... I wondered who I was beyond This complicated, milk skinned, genital-ed body. ... To be.'11 Alexander's poem makes an example of Toomers personal struggles with understanding his race, capturing how he was not trying to dissociate himself with his heritage but was trying to move 'beyond my body, this container of flesh'. ...

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Females were made out to be inferior to the male, but forced to exemplify better morals than them. ... Linda Brent decided to enter into a relationship with a single, white male to stop the sexual advances from her master. ... Female slaves in the South did not have the luxury to own their own bodies, minds, or rights. ...

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When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... Black males are pulled over often, along with Mexicans and minorities alike, by law enforcement for simply being a person of color. ... They believe African American males from the ghetto are the wrong doers in this country and that is a result of the slave trade because, as mentioned earlier, the mental illness of racism has managed to trickle down over the generations. ... As stated by the male par...

• Word Count: 2862
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Imagine that you, yourself, are a slave. Your body, your time, your life- belongs to a slave owning farmer. You have nothing. You spend at least six days a week tending to the fields of a farm. You have never even had a glimpse of freedom. You never expect to. You can't even imagine being free to do...

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Fearing that the body would be discovered, she placed it in her fireplace and burned it. ... White male access to slave women both threatened the stability of the white family and emphasized the fact that in many respects married white women were little more than the property of their husbands. ... Because Celia was a female, and because she had been ill, had in fact complained of an inability to work because of her illness, they had reason to doubt that, without the aid of another adult, she could have burned Newsom's body herself alone. ...

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Not only did another own the produce of her labor, but her body and her reproductive power as well. ... According to DuBois, an American Negro has " two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in the same dark body- (DuBois, The Souls Of Black Folk). ... These issues that ranged from sexual harassment to unwanted children from rape, were absent in Douglass" narrative, as well as the other narratives written by males. ... She also talked about the attempts made by (white) men to gain control of her body, psyche, and baby producing aspects. ...

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Male African Americans can't be forgotten as they were hung and whipped as well, but the story of Beloved gives us insight to the will of a woman. ... She is taught from her that the slave owners may use and abuse their bodies, but that still doesn"t make them their property. What keeps them free is knowing that their mind, body, and will is their own and they need to appreciate it. ...

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My time periods start in the 1850's to the 1900. Every owner is different. One master may give their slaves rest period once in awhile, while others may work slaves to their limits. There were some slaves who were punished for little things and some were barely punished at all, but they all did g...

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The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war- (54). ... Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his limbs, the social pact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members; and it is the same power which, directed by the general will, bears, as I have said, the name of sovereignty."" ... He compares this pact as having power overall the people as a man would have over his body. ... Hence by the nature of the compact, every act of sovereignty, tha...

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Here in the United States, many women are mentally enslaved to the idealism of having a perfect body, always having the newest makeup collection and having the nicest wardrobe to be acceptable in society's eyes. ... In various places across the globe freedom is stifled, whether it's a male, female or even an animal. ...

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Leading the pact is poverty due to the lack of education and employment making the sale of something readily available, such as your body or your child more enticing. ... About 98% of people trafficked into sexual exploitation are female and 2% are male. ...

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It was not enough that the produce of her labor was owned by her master but her body was his as well.Thus, Jacobs's narrative constructed it's own primary audience of white middle classed women from the North, who were considered the moral guardians of the nation and were horrified by slavery's threat to woman's virtue. ... In conclusion, whether the narrative was written by male or female representative of the African-American race it still conveyed the unanimous and irrefutable message that slavery is an abomination and should be abolished. ...

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David Lawrence writes, ""The people withhold the support that their songs would have bodied forth, their words disdaining to touch the offending flesh. ... The use of religious references, and of music as an association with the "cloudless sky" and the omnipresence of nature presents music as a creator, revitalizing Sethe's body and creating an end to her repression and captive mentality in Beloved's presence. ...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he ...

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"There was, for instance, a pervasive set of oppositions inherited from Athenian thought of things: thus, slavery is to freedom as incontinence is to self-control and emotions are to bodily appetite; the slaves is to the master as body is to mind, as woman is to man, and child to father" (Fitzgerald p 8). ... Slaves with special talents were sold for higher prices, and female slaves were cheaper than males. ...

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Serfdom is a labor system under which most European agricultural workers lived during the Middle Ages. The term "serf" is derived from the Latin word "servus", meaning servant or slave. Most people are familiar with the term "slave" and when it is spoken of, nearly all people think back to the south...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1963 by Abraham Lincoln. Many enslaved Americans were thought to be freed. slavery still exist today all over the world. This form of modern day slavery is called human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as "The recruitment, transpor...

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