1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
... ;, by Angela Davis, discusses ideological origins of the black slave woman's characterization as aggressive and matriarchal by white scholars. Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more ... In it White discusses the dual prejudice of racism and sexism that black women of the antebellum period were burdened with. Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capaciti...
- Word Count: 1150
- Approx Pages: 5
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- Grade Level: Graduate