... not use the provision of subsistence goods as leverage in the exercise of authority over women" (153.) Subsequently a big reason why a matriarchal was the dominant form of marriage of a slave family was because the male couldn't support the female as stated above due to the fact that the male couldn"t provide the female with food, clothing, shelter, etc If the male ... . At some point, often at puberty but sometimes earlier, sons left their mother's hut to join the men of the lineage segment, but they never severed the mother-son emotional bond" (107.) Back in the slave era female slaves...

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... between individuals (Walvin 2001;p 174)" By the mid eighteenth century within the Chesapeake region and despite the mammoth difficulties slaves had to endure, family systems developed and became the cornerstone of slave life. North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. Allowed by ... the word shipmate was used by a slave and meant "brother" or "sister" a word of affection used to demonstrate the strength of the bond forged on the passage between slaves. When looking at the cultural habits of slaves in the Caribbean and in North America there can be seen...

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... merchandise"(Jacobs 3), Frederick Douglass had to re-learn to think of himself as a human being and a free man, rather than a property of someone or a slave. Such details as birth dates, family ties among slaves and parentage, which are basic for constructing an identity, were withheld from slaves in order to prevent them from establishing a sense of self that could lead to ... from each other in this case because Jacobs has no problem with identifying herself, she knows her parentage and her age and even has childhood memories of her parents and family. Douglass however lacks this kind...

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... was made a bit better because of the fact that they were free to interact within themselves during the night. There were no masters watching over them; they were free to bond with each other and fight through slavery together. Of course, slavery was still unethical, but it creates room for a debate with a side that says that a lot of positive culture and ... family relations were created due to slavery and the natural cycle of day and night. Nature is a useful lens to use that leads to such questions such as whether slavery was ... ...

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