Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central

Evidence

The white woman could at least plead for her own emancipation; the black women doubly enslaved, could but suffer and struggle and be silent. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black women suffered quadruple exploitation as laborers, domestic workers, breeders, and rape targets; Breeding black women slaves became economically key once importation was restricted. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 50; Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 48 (+3 more)

Related

• Breeding black women slaves became economically key once importation was restricted. (similarity 0.92)
• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. (similarity 0.89)
• Slave breeding was widespread despite scholarly dismissal of it (similarity 0.87)
• Black women suffered quadruple exploitation as laborers, domestic workers, breeders, and rape targets (similarity 0.86)
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex (similarity 0.85)
• Understanding black women’s status requires analyzing race and sex together (similarity 0.84)
• Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor (similarity 0.84)
• Planters rewarded slave motherhood while punishing abortion as theft of property. (similarity 0.84)
• African women’s accustomed labor made them ideal plantation slaves. (similarity 0.83)
• Black women’s exploitation is better described as masculinization than black men’s de-masculinization. (similarity 0.83)
• Enslaved black women worked as hard as men but were barred from supervisory roles (similarity 0.83)
• Black slave women were both accomplices in and victims of patriarchy (similarity 0.82)
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.82)
• Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate (similarity 0.82)
• Sexism and racism were twin oppressive forces in black women’s slave experience (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26