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Slavery
Title: Slavery
Category: History
Details: Words: 2479 | Pages: 10.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Slavery
A former slave during the antebellum era, Lewis Clarke, said, “How would you like to see your sisters, and your wives, and your daughter, completely, teetotally, and altogether, in the power of the master. – You can picture to yourselves a little, how you would feel; but oh, if I could tell you!” Blacks during the time of slavery saw the many different experiences women had to go through, from “breeding” slaves to working in the …showed first 75 words of 2479 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2479 total…Fox-Genovese, and Perdue, pg.89). Although it seems that the black slave women and the white women kept themselves distant from each other, they really were not. They sometimes worked together and even nursed the other’s child. The black slave even took care of her children and was called what we know today as a “mammy.” Not everyone was against slaves and believed in slavery. The Methodist church supported them in many ways (Perdue pg. 97).
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