1. The Story of Female Slavery
Female slavery was also distinguished and structured by childbearing and childbirth. ... Most slave women this age were either pregnant, nursing an infant, or had at least one small child to care for "male runaways could be more assured that their children would be cared for, but slave women had no such assurance. ... Slaveholder sexism also made female slavery different from male slavery. ... Besides making women's days especially long, slaveholder practices restricted female slave movement. ... The most common form of female self-defense was feigning illness. ...
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