Enslaved black women were valued for labor, reproduction, and resale
Evidence
Black women especially were seen as the means to surplus value in a triple sense, then: as making commodities, as making babies, and as themselves commodified objects for possible trade — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 51
Categorization
- DEFINE: The ‘triple sense’ of surplus value is a striking conceptual framing of enslaved women’s economic role.