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A 4 page contention that as bad as slavery was on the whole, being a female slave was worse than being a male slave. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs and “Celia, a Slave: A True Story” by Melton McLaurin are used to support this contention. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the atrocities of being a slave. Frederic Douglass, for example, wrote of his life as a slave and illuminated the hardships and personal anguish he was forced to endure
simply because of the circumstances of his birth and the color of his skin. Few such accounts, however, have been left behind by women who lived life as a
slave. Those accounts that have been left attest to the contention that being a female slave was in many ways much worse than being a male slave in antebellum
society. There were indeed many atrocities associated with being a female slave in the antebellum south. Female slaves not only
had to endure the hardships of the work and meager existence, they also were quite commonly expected to provide sexual services to their master. Such is the case in
the story "Celia, a Slave: A True Story" by Melton McLaurin. Fourteen year old Celia was not only bound to her master through the physical work which she
was expected to become but intimately. Sexually exploited and coerced emotionally, Celia even bore her white master two children. Being
put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This left the female slave in a position of
having nothing which was truly her own. While most male slaves had at least the reassurance of being in control of their own sexuality, such was not the case
for the female slave. To further complicate matters, females saw their children ripped from them and sold to other homes, never
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