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A 3 page essay that analyzes the web of social attitudes and interactions that served to rationalize both racial and sexual discrimination in the antebellum era. The writer argues that black and white womanhood had an interdependent relationship that served to define the role of each in society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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were complex. Black and white womanhood had an interdependent relationship that served to define the role of each in society (White 6). Historian Deborah Gray White argues that the "white
womans sense of herself as a woman -- her self esteem and perceived superiority -- depended on the racism that debased black women" (6). However, not all women were content
with the place assigned them by society. Northern women during the antebellum era were not only agitating for abolition, but also for rights for women. An examination of the
intricate social web that bound women together during this period shows that black women were intrinsic not only to the way in which Southern white women related to society, but
also in the manner to which Northern white women pursued equal rights. White points out that Southern white women were mistresses "because black women were slaves" (6). White women
possessed power only because black women were powerless. Research on this era reveals details that reflect the overall attitudes of that time. Historian Kathleen Browns research into seventeenth century
Virginia laws reveals that the labor of African women was taxed (White 6). The labor of lower class English women was not taxed because it was generally construed that white
womanhood was physically weak and dependent on a man for support. African women, however, were judged to be strong enough to earn a living from the tobacco they grew, so
their labor was taxed (White 6). As this suggests, black women were, from the beginning of European presence on the continent, at the heart of attempts to create concepts of
racial difference (White 6). The work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese points to the fact that while white slave masters controlled both black and white women, the "latter wielded power over
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