1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
... mean that slave women were deprived of other strategies to resist their masters. As White points out, a woman's gender endowed her with the exclusive opportunity to feign illness or pregnancy, thereby evading desired productive quotas typically expected of her. "In an age when women's diseases ... age while remaining confident that no damage was done to her reproductive organs was a guessing game that few white slave owners wanted to play or could afford to lose." Because there were limited objective measures readily available to verify health complaints and claims of pregnancy, ... it ...
- Word Count: 1150
- Approx Pages: 5
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- Grade Level: Graduate