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A 3 page paper which examines the condition of the female slave as seen in Deborah Gray White’s “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” No additional sources cited.
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women. However, the experiences of men and women in relationship to enslavement in the United States were very different. While men were simply worked hard, and beaten or killed if
they tried to escape, women experienced far more oppression and mistreatment because of their existence as women in a mans world, a mans world that was white as well as
black. The following paper looks at Deborah Gray Whites work "Arnt I a Woman" and examines the condition and experiences of the female slave. Slavery and Women
"Slavery is terrible for men: but it is far more terrible for women" (White, 1999; 62). This is because women were sexual objects as
well as slaves. They were used for breeding on top of being used for work. White illustrates that even in relationship to coming across the sea in slave ships they
were treated differently. Men were generally shackled with irons, whereas women and children were not so confined. This created a condition, however, wherein women were "more easily accessible to the
criminal whims and sexual desires of seamen, and few attempts were made to keep the crew members of the slave ships from molesting African women" (White, 1999; 63). From
the beginning African American women were more than physical workers in relationship to slavery. They were the sexual receptacles of not only the white men, but also the breeders
of additional slaves, as controlled by the masters. It seems there was no problem in perhaps insisting that the African American male slave help procreate, but the woman was under
the control of who would "breed" with her. The African American male slaves were also fairly limited in respect to their treatment. They were beaten and worked for the
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