1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
... ] almost to the ground, that at a distance you 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 producer of crops and more laborers. Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority to ... ...
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