Domestic service dehumanized black women as fully as plantation slavery did

Evidence

However, Lucy Smith could subordinate easily, almost imperceptibly, her feminist consciousness to that of race. On one such occasion she stated that educated black women held certain advantages over white women. She believed that the identical labor reality for male and female slaves created a solidarity not found in the white race, and she praised the black man of her day for continuing to keep his woman by his side as he moved into new types of work. Smith noted that the white woman “has had to contest with her brother every inch of the ground for recognition.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 662 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shared slave labor forged a gender solidarity black women could invoke over white women — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 662

Broader Connections

• Shared slave labor forged a gender solidarity black women could invoke over white women #qualifies (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 662