Inequality as a Female Slave

Slavery was a brutal and inhumane institution driven by racism and the desire for cheap labor. White men stole Africans from their native land, stripped them of their homes, and treated them as sub-human. White men created certain measures to insure this inferior position of slaves. Not only were legal measures and laws set up, but also slaveholders established their own methods to keep slaves subordinate to the white community. Female slaves were often the targets of slave owner's plan for economic prosperity. Slaveholders used slave women and young girls to work in fields, perform household chores, produce new slaves, and serve as concubines to their masters. Indeed, masters victimized all slaves, but because female slaves often served as breeders and because legally slave women had no control over their own bodies, great deals of them were predisposed to sexual and economical exploitation by the master class. …