Women’s Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11

Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men. Women had a unique vantage point to understand slavery and were particularly vulnerable to some terrible abuses under the institution.

Clint’s book, How the Word is Passed is available now! https://bookshop.org/books/how-the-word-is-passed-a-reckoning-with-the-history-of-slavery-across-america/9780316492935

SOURCES
– Samuel H. Williamson & Louis Cain, “Measuring Slavery in 2016 dollars,” MeasuringWorth, 2020.
-” A Prelude to War: The 1850s.” African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, by Clayborne Carson et al., Pearson Longman, 2005, pp. 221-222.
-Modern History Sourcebook: Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”, December 1851
-Quoted in Deborah Gray White, Ar’ n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1999), 102.