Dr. Sara Hughes
Women in Slavery
Dr. Sarah Hughes, professor emeritus at
Shippensburg University, came to dispel some of the myths
about enslaved women and to expand the perspectives on them.
Some Myths
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Slaves were men
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Famous slaves/African Americans have been men
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Most slave women did housework
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Slaves did not marry
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Slave families were matriarchal (But many were matrfocal)
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Slave women did not want to have children
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Slave women were promiscuous
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Slave women were not whipped or treated as harshly as men
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Slavery was more humiliating for men than for women
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Slave women were purchased mainly as breeders
Quiz on African American Women
