Masters naming women by husbands showed male slaves held higher status

Evidence

The practice of masters and mistresses identifying a slave woman by her husband’s name (Scipio’s Jane or John’s Sue), indicates that whites accorded the black male slave a higher status than that of the female slave. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 148

Categorization

• QUESTION: A concrete naming practice worth verifying and potentially contrasting with how free white women were named.
• XREF: connects to: Enslaved black men held higher status than black women under slavery; Enslaved black women shared racial status with men but faced sexist subordination — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 150; Enslaved black people internalized their owners’ patriarchal sex roles — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 154 (+2 more)

Related

• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.81)
• Enslaved black men held higher status than black women under slavery (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved black women shared racial status with men but faced sexist subordination (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved black women withheld the respect they granted white men from white mistresses (similarity 0.79)
• Enslaved black women worked as hard as men but were barred from supervisory roles (similarity 0.78)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.78)
• Black women’s exploitation is better described as masculinization than black men’s de-masculinization. (similarity 0.78)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved black men held higher status than black women under slavery #corroborates (0.85)
• Enslaved black women shared racial status with men but faced sexist subordination #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 150
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s #corroborates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 142
• Enslaved black people internalized their owners’ patriarchal sex roles #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 154
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #expands (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26