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Essay Archive - Sex in Black, White and Mulatto
Sex in Black, White and Mulatto
Sex is part of human nature. It always has been; it always will be.
When people think of sex, normally it is as a pleasure. Unfortunately, for
slaves in antebellum America, this was not always the case. Rape, slave
breeding, married slave couples being split up at slave auctions were all
forms of sexual tensions found on nineteenth-century American plantations.
Their owners did not often treat slaves as people, but instead as
property. If they were treated as people, then the slaves could be seen as
equal to their master. However, as property, slaves were inferior and
theref....
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