Public nakedness was deliberately used to degrade enslaved women

Evidence

In the Victorian world, where white women were religiously covering every body part, black women were daily stripped of their clothing and publicly whipped. Slave-owners were well aware that it added to the degradation and humiliation of female slaves for them to be forced to appear naked before male whippers and onlookers. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 114

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119; Floggings of enslaved women fused racial and anti-female violence — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 117; Rape of enslaved women functioned as institutionalized terrorism, not lust — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 78 (+2 more)

Related

• Floggings of enslaved women fused racial and anti-female violence (similarity 0.85)
• Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced (similarity 0.85)
• Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate (similarity 0.84)
• Enslaved women were no more sexually liberated than white women. (similarity 0.84)
• Rape of enslaved women functioned as institutionalized terrorism, not lust (similarity 0.83)
• White mistresses often punished rather than protected sexually exploited slave women (similarity 0.82)
• Enslaved people also absorbed the view of women as temptresses (similarity 0.82)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.82)
• Slave sexual violence was punishment, with the master’s deviance transferred to the woman (similarity 0.82)
• Historians have normalized and minimized the rape of enslaved black women. (similarity 0.81)
• The cult of true womanhood demoralized enslaved women and enabled manipulation (similarity 0.80)
• Nineteenth-century sexual morality taught mistresses to blame enslaved women for rape (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved black women withheld the respect they granted white men from white mistresses (similarity 0.80)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.80)
• Rape of black women was ignored because they were seen as sexually permissive (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• Floggings of enslaved women fused racial and anti-female violence #corroborates (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 117