How women helped sustain the slave trade
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The Role of Women in the Management of Enslaved People's Lives
The Southern United States household becomes almost a training ground, a school of sorts for these young women. So they begin to kind of develop strategies of management, strategies of discipline. Some parents don't want their young daughters to engage in these activities. But there are some households where young women are learning the tools of mastery. They're learning how to own enslaved people to discipline and manage them adeptly.
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