... labor accrued from a slave woman, she "had to be annulled as [a] woman, that is, as [a] woman in her historical stance of wardship under the entire male hierarchy". Therefore, she was schematized similarly to her male counterpart (in regards to gender identity), giving her supposedly "equal" authority to him. Conceptions of a domineering, matriarchal black woman correspondingly emerged. "In ... would think they had six legs." Morgan writes that this beastly description represented to Ligon, and similarly-minded Europeans of the time, the sole utility of the black woman's body as a produ...

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