Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate

Evidence

Mass sexual exploitation of enslaved black women was a direct consequence of the anti-woman sexual politics of colonial patriarchal America. Since the black woman was not protected either by law or public opinion, she was an easy target. While racism was clearly the evil that had decreed black people would be enslaved, it was sexism that determined that the lot of the black female would be harsher, more brutal than that of the black male slave. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 142 (#expands, via linked claim)

Sadistic floggings of nude black women were socially sanctioned because they were seen as racial abuse, a master punishing a recalcitrant slave, but they were also expressions of male contempt and hatred for the female. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 117 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black women suffered quadruple exploitation as laborers, domestic workers, breeders, and rape targets; Sexism and racism were twin oppressive forces in black women’s slave experience; Nineteenth-century black women endured double enslavement by race and sex (+8 more)

Related

• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.90)
• Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced (similarity 0.90)
• Sexual exploitation dehumanized black women more than labor exploitation did (similarity 0.89)
• Rape of black women was ignored because they were seen as sexually permissive (similarity 0.89)
• Black women suffered quadruple exploitation as laborers, domestic workers, breeders, and rape targets (similarity 0.89)
• Floggings of enslaved women fused racial and anti-female violence (similarity 0.89)
• White mistresses often punished rather than protected sexually exploited slave women (similarity 0.88)
• Black slave women were both accomplices in and victims of patriarchy (similarity 0.88)
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex (similarity 0.88)
• Labeling black women as sexual savages enabled their rapes by denying their humanity. (similarity 0.87)
• Sexism and racism together intensified black women’s oppression beyond black men’s. (similarity 0.87)
• Sexism and racism were twin oppressive forces in black women’s slave experience (similarity 0.87)
• Nineteenth-century black women endured double enslavement by race and sex (similarity 0.87)
• Understanding black women’s status requires analyzing race and sex together (similarity 0.87)
• Nineteenth century black women were the most sexist-oppressed female group in America (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Sexism and racism were twin oppressive forces in black women’s slave experience #expands (0.70)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 142
• Rape of black women was ignored because they were seen as sexually permissive #expands (0.60)
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26
• Floggings of enslaved women fused racial and anti-female violence #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 117
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 47
• Nineteenth-century black women endured double enslavement by race and sex #corroborates (0.55)
• Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced #corroborates (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119