Forced mating failed and gave way to slave-chosen partners

Evidence

The slaveowner’s encouragement of mating between black women and men led to the establishment of a black slave sub-culture. Within the black slave sub-culture a similar sexual politics emerged. Initially, slave women were compelled by their masters to mate indiscriminately. It was not uncommon for a master to grant a favored black male slave the privilege of marrying a slave girl or woman of his choice, even if she was a reluctant partner. This practice was not successful. Resistance to forced mating often led to such social upheavals that most masters deemed it wiser to allow black slave women and men to choose their own partners. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 142

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the argument that the black slave sub-culture replicated white patriarchal gender roles, relevant to later chapters of hooks and to feminist theory generally. — connects to: Slave breeding was widespread despite scholarly dismissal of it — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 120; Early colonial segregation barriers failed immediately against intimate contact — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1317

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• Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor (similarity 0.83)
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.82)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.81)
• White men created the race-sex hierarchy that black men accept and support. (similarity 0.81)
• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. (similarity 0.80)
• Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central (similarity 0.80)
• Both white and black patriarchies framed feminism as opposition to black liberation. (similarity 0.80)
• Most black women chose the black patriarchy over the feminist movement. (similarity 0.80)
• Male freedom is incompatible with advocating the subjugation of women (similarity 0.80)
• Freedom for men requires ending the subjugation of women (similarity 0.80)
• Slavery forced black women into work independence, not voluntary choice (similarity 0.79)
• Black men asserted patriarchy to compensate for losing status to white men (similarity 0.79)
• Enslaved Black men prioritized self-preservation over protecting Black women (similarity 0.79)
• White men were encouraged to exploit black women but not marry them (similarity 0.79)