Slave girls were sexually assaulted from age thirteen through bribes or force

Evidence

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. The lash and the foul talk of her masters and his sons are her teachers. When she is fourteen or fifteen, her owner or his sons, or the overseer, or perhaps all of them, begin to bribe her with presents. If these failed to accomplish their purpose, she is whipped or starved into submission to their will. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 69

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26; Calling enslaved Black women prostitutes misdescribed their coerced sexual exploitation — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 99

Related

• Calling enslaved Black women prostitutes misdescribed their coerced sexual exploitation (similarity 0.84)
• Slave parents rarely prepared daughters for the reality of sexual exploitation (similarity 0.84)
• Bribery framing absolved slaveowners while making female submission appear consensual (similarity 0.82)
• Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate (similarity 0.81)
• Devaluation of black womanhood licensed exploitation and prostitution (similarity 0.81)
• Rape of black women was ignored because they were seen as sexually permissive (similarity 0.80)
• Slave sexual violence was punishment, with the master’s deviance transferred to the woman (similarity 0.80)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.79)
• Enslaved women absorbed anti-woman violence that white women otherwise faced (similarity 0.79)
• Sexual exploitation dehumanized black women more than labor exploitation did (similarity 0.79)
• White mistresses often punished rather than protected sexually exploited slave women (similarity 0.78)
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex (similarity 0.78)
• Historians have normalized and minimized the rape of enslaved black women. (similarity 0.78)
• The cult of true womanhood demoralized enslaved women and enabled manipulation (similarity 0.78)
• Enslaved black women withheld the respect they granted white men from white mistresses (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26
• Calling enslaved Black women prostitutes misdescribed their coerced sexual exploitation #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 99