However, it becomes psychological abuse once white women and enslaved African men also start to believe that enslaved African women are temptress for white men. A temptress being a woman who tempts someone to do something usually due to the fact that she is a sexually attractive woman. Yet, enslaved African women were thought to be at the bottom of the totem pole, so how were they also seen as sexually attractive? Do they love or despise African women? Even though, it was mainly the fair skin/mulatto women that were seen as temptress, darker skinned black women were still seen as sexual objects as well. This divide between mixed and dark skin enslaved women caused psychological distress because although they were both enslaved they were
