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| Type of paper: | Essay |
| Subject area: | Pedagogy |
| Academic level: | College |
| Style: | MLA |
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| Author: | Tijuana Marquez |
| Date submitted: | 2009-10-06 07:51:02 |
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Name Professor /Instructor Subject Date Feminist Ideology among African-American Women in the Antislavery Movement The antislavery campaign in the United States resulted in the emergence of the middle-class feminist movement . However , the latter did not include African-American women or white women of lower economic classes . The objectives of middle-class feminists were suffrage and social recognition for upper-class white women . Black women , on the other hand , first sought to be recognized as women . Already equal to African-American men socially within the slave community and in terms of the oppression they both suffered , African-American women challenged the institution of slavery and resisted sexual assaults of white men (Scott , n . pag . The lives of black female slaves proved to be harder than those of their male counterparts . Black female slaves were exploited for both their reproductive and productive capacities . Apart from performing strenuous manual labor and enduring abject living conditions , they were expected to replenish the slave population through pregnancy and childbirth . Furthermore , black female slaves experienced sexism and sexual abuse from their masters (Mankiller , 543 . But the worst form of mistreatment that female African-American slaves received from their owners was probably the stereotype of the promiscuous black woman . In slavery-era America , white women were regarded as the models of self-control , self-respect , sexual purity and modesty . Black women , meanwhile , were often dismissed as innately licentious and desired sexual relations with white men . This misconception was used as a justification for the rape of female African-American slaves by their owners (Mankiller , 543 . The labeling of black women as immoral has partial historical basis . Slaves were sold naked in order to show that they were healthy , capable of reproduction and docile (as seen through their whipping scars . Slaves likewise worked wearing scant clothing - black female slaves often worked with their dresses lifted up around their hips to prevent the hems from being stained with the water , dirt and mud in which they worked . In sharp contrast , whites , especially white women , were dressed in layers of clothing (Mankiller , 543 . As a result , black women were initially excluded from the nineteenth-century women 's rights movement . Feminists during this era believed that black women should not be considered as women because they did not conform to the prevailing images of feminine virtue . Most black abolitionist women interpreted this philosophy as a means for feminists to have more time to pursue their cause . A feminist , after all , will no longer have the time to rail about gender inequality if she has to cook , clean her house or tend to her family 's farm - chores that are traditionally assigned to female African-American slaves (Dixon , 50 . Sojourner Truth , an illiterate former slave , was one of those who insisted that black women have rights as well . An abolitionist and a champion of women 's rights in the nineteenth century , she opposed the nineteenth-century 's assumptions about womanhood . For Truth , women 's rights must apply to all women regardless of race . In her speech Aren 't I a Woman (1851 , she used her... |
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