Sex In Black, White And Mulatto
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Sex is part of human nature. It always has been; it always will be.
When people think of sex, normally it is as a pleasure. Unfortunately, for
slaves in antebellum America, this was not always the case. Rape, slave
breeding, married slave couples being split up at slave auctions were all
forms of ....
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.... Without laws that would allow these enslaved women
to resist, there is a presumption then that they were always willing to
oblige to their master's requests for sex.2 This, of course, is not true.
Not all slave women were so compelled to give into their owner's demands.
For some slaves the only way they could resist the advances of an
oncoming sexual predator was through resistance. Such an example is Jermain
Loguen's mother. When attacked, "she picked up a stick and dealt her ....
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