Jennifer Morgan Gender

Jennifer Morgan reminds us that gender has been controlled as a more serious category of difference than race. In her article, Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder, Morgan maintains that racialist debate was deeply inspired with ideas about gender and sexual difference. Based on her research, white men who laid lengthy groundwork on which slavery could be justified relied on established ideologies of race and gender to approve Europe's legitimate access to African labor (Morgan 169). I agree that the European men used African women's strength and savagery as an excuse to use them as slaves. For instance, Morgan confirms it when she writes, "For Ligon, their monstrous bodies symbolized their sole utility-their ability to produce both crops and other laborers (Morgan 169)." White men, such as Ligon, believe that just because they have unbelievable
. . my eyes could not be satisfied with looking at her for wonder. . . she had a ring in her nostrils . . . so that she appeared like a monster to us, rather than a human being ( Morgan 173)." This proves to me and convinces me that Morgan was right about how beauty never existed. In addition, this adds towards her view of white men not being the first to label these African women. In accordance to Morgan's argument, she reminds us that it's unfair that these African women are seen and labeled as animals. She states what a man says in the article that, "Their women are delivered with little or no labour; they have therefore no more occasion for midwifes than the female oran-outang, or any other wild animall. . . . (Morgan 189)." It is evident that this allows the legitimate use of slavery since these women are not viewed as human beings. Overall, Morgan does show and constantly questions the way African women have been observed to turn into