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A 5 page paper which examines how women in
the Antebellum South often faced double prejudices in that they were women as well as
slaves. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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realities associated with slavery. However, it seems upon closer examination that female slaves were often victims of prejudice from whites as well as from the male slaves. Female slaves were
often put into particular categories that left them the victims of powerful double prejudices. In the following paper we examine this reality. Female Slaves In beginning our discussion
we first turn to the subject of breeding or bearing children, something that clearly set the female slave apart from the male slave in a white society. Sanders states that,
"Black women were considered to be very worthy of having children when they were slaves-so much so that the white master himself often fathered as many Black babies as he
could" (double.html). Most white men, "even Northerners and foreigners thought that Black women were so worthy as willing mothers that a foreign visitor, Johann Schoepf, wrote that in almost every
house there are negresses, slaves, who count it an honor to bring a mulatto into the world. Even the abolitionist James Redpath wrote that mulatto women were gratified by the
criminal advances of Saxons (Deborah Gray White, "Arnt I a Woman?" W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1987)" (Sanders double.html). In light of the fact that so many Northern
and foreign individuals felt that such conditions were powerful realities, it comes as no surprise to see some of the opposite in the South where, as time went by, Black
women were considered a determent to society in terms of their childbearing capabilities. In fact, it seems that during the 1970s and 1980s there were numerous black women in the
South who suffered illegal hysterectomies at the hands of surgeons who were conducting the surgery under false pretenses. "Teaching hospitals performed. unnecessary hysterectomies on poor Black women as practice for
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