Enslaved Women In The 1900's

During the time of the 1900’s, we have seen the disgusting ways African Americans were treated. We have seen the selling, leasing, and physically punishing someone. There was torment that a human being had to go through because they were taken away from their homeland and were considered “slaves”. Now you would probably think that between enslaved men and women that enslaved women would have less suffering to go through. Completely false. Women were given the hardest workload and the hardest time during enslavement. Enslaved women went through so much more pain and hardship than anybody can ever imagine. The road to freedom was more gruesome and intense for a enslaved women that it would ever be for an enslaved man.
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According to Wilma King, some slave women were granted as little as a month off from work, while other slave owners made them tend to their duties earlier. Contingent on the slave owner, some slave women were given more nimble jobs to work on, while other slave owners forced slave women to go back to the problematic jobs they had before the birth. “Women often had no additional choice than to take their brand-new child along with them to their infinite days of work, often in the smoldering summer sun” (King 13). The children would sometimes die from the heat exhaustion or from
Old mistress had gone away to spend the day one day. Mother always worked in the house. She didn 't work on the farm in Missouri. While she was alone, the boys came in and threw her down on the floor and tied her down so she couldn 't struggle, and one after the other used her as long as they wanted for the whole afternoon. Mother was sick when her mistress came home. When old mistress wanted to know what was the matter with her, she told her what the boys had done. She whipped them and that 's the way I came to be here”. (Gates 96) This comes to show that women were used as sexual pleasure and were seen as nothing more than that. Women would only be good for sex and for