In contrast to the stereotypes of the 'gentler sex,' female slaveholders were just as In They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and.
In consequence, black slave women were autonomous in ways that white women could not be. Like the attention the master sometimes aimed at female slaves.
Black females, some of them children, were forced into sexual relationships for their white owners' pleasure and profit: attempting to keep the slave population.