... " authority to him. Conceptions of a domineering, matriarchal black woman correspondingly emerged. "In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference." For instance, in the ... Europeans of the time, the sole utility of the black woman's body as a producer of crops and more laborers. Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority ...

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