1. Reassessing the Past - Gender and Slavery
In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... 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 arduous, "manly" tasks. ... Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capacities, childcare and childbearing were inevitable responsibilities of the the female slave...
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- Grade Level: Graduate