In “Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder,” Jennifer Morgan analyzes a variety of primary sources pertaining to European travelers that lead her to conclude that early European travelers set ideological maneuvers and stereotypical ideology on women through racism and sexualization hence enabling slavery upon african americans. Mrs. Morgan also claims that racism occurred before slavery did. However, in this article that she writes about this topic we can see that she is practices deductive reasoning rather than practicing inductive reasoning therefore jeopardizing her credibility as a historian. Although Mrs. Morgan implements various primary sources to back up her claim, she fails to do so without committing many fallacies that then make her
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Morgan claims that Ligon dehumanizes African and Native women by first describing a women as a beauty then describing her as a beast. Mrs. Morgan quotes Ligon, a European traveler “"Negro of the greatest beauty and majesty together…Her stature large, and excellently shaped, well favour'd, full eye'd, and admirably grac’d ”(167) and claims that he is sexualizing this women and accepting her beauty only to later describe women as beast and monster like creatures by describing their breast sand stating “[Breast] hang down below their Navels…they hang almost to the ground, that at a distance you would think they had six legs.”(168) However, this is a fallacy and an invalid argument because Ligion first describes a african women that has already been Europeanized as a beautiful majestic women. Nonetheless, what Mrs. Morgan leaves out and doesn't inform us is that this first women he describes as a beauty is a padre’s mistress and that she has assimilated to European culture and behavior; the second women he describes as a beast is a women that lives with the rest of her peoples and has not assimilated to European culture. Ligion is simply describing what he sees as he goes he is not ideologically maneuvering anything he is only describing what he observes and has no intentions to dehumanize these …show more content…
This is not a credible claim due to the fact that by nature, males are going to observe and be attracted to Women not males. In Addition, Mrs. Morgan claims that women are sexualized however this is a logical fallacy; females and male are bared chested but cover gentiles, men all look the same upper chest women all have different upper chest hence men observe women's breast because that is new to these male travelers.These Men are used to seeing other men shirtless so its no surprise to see how other males from another place are also shirtless. On the other hand, these men are not used to seeing women bare chested there for by nature men look at these women, focus on them more than males and realize that these women live life very different life styles where it is the complete opposite relative to European
Morgan claims that Ligon dehumanizes African and Native women by first describing a women as a beauty then describing her as a beast. Mrs. Morgan quotes Ligon, a European traveler “"Negro of the greatest beauty and majesty together…Her stature large, and excellently shaped, well favour'd, full eye'd, and admirably grac’d ”(167) and claims that he is sexualizing this women and accepting her beauty only to later describe women as beast and monster like creatures by describing their breast sand stating “[Breast] hang down below their Navels…they hang almost to the ground, that at a distance you would think they had six legs.”(168) However, this is a fallacy and an invalid argument because Ligion first describes a african women that has already been Europeanized as a beautiful majestic women. Nonetheless, what Mrs. Morgan leaves out and doesn't inform us is that this first women he describes as a beauty is a padre’s mistress and that she has assimilated to European culture and behavior; the second women he describes as a beast is a women that lives with the rest of her peoples and has not assimilated to European culture. Ligion is simply describing what he sees as he goes he is not ideologically maneuvering anything he is only describing what he observes and has no intentions to dehumanize these …show more content…
This is not a credible claim due to the fact that by nature, males are going to observe and be attracted to Women not males. In Addition, Mrs. Morgan claims that women are sexualized however this is a logical fallacy; females and male are bared chested but cover gentiles, men all look the same upper chest women all have different upper chest hence men observe women's breast because that is new to these male travelers.These Men are used to seeing other men shirtless so its no surprise to see how other males from another place are also shirtless. On the other hand, these men are not used to seeing women bare chested there for by nature men look at these women, focus on them more than males and realize that these women live life very different life styles where it is the complete opposite relative to European