Legal ownership stripped enslaved women of power to refuse assault

Evidence

Enslaved women were prey to sexual exploitation and assault by masters, managers, and overseers. Although some resisted, they had little power to refuse predatory men who legally owned their bodies. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 173

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enslaved women who resisted sexual assault were punished brutally by sale, maiming, or death — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 220; Enslaved people had no privacy rights under antebellum law but are owed them now; Missouri law’s self-defense statute explicitly excluded enslaved women from womanhood — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 221 (+10 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Enslaved women who resisted sexual assault were punished brutally by sale, maiming, or death — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 220; Enslaved people had no privacy rights under antebellum law but are owed them now; Missouri law’s self-defense statute explicitly excluded enslaved women from womanhood — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 221 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved women were no more sexually liberated than white women. #complicates (0.72) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 173