Northup described a horrific ordeal faced by many slave women back in the day. Beatings occurring at the hands of the slave master’s mistress only further complicated the lives of slaves. This is especially the case since they often had no choice but to entertain the slave master’s advances. The female slaves of the day were truly pitted in a dreadful compromising situation. Their impossible choice was to decide between being used as a sex toy or face a beating for denying the master’s advances which essentially meant denying them of their desires. Agreeing to be the sexual entertainment for the master meant taking on the burden that would come from the jealous mistress in the form of extra, severe beatings. Situations like the one described
