Back in the time of slavery, slaves weren't considered people, they were known as being property. They were sold, bought, and most of them were mistreated. Both men and women that were sold into slavery had difficulty with relationships and both usually ended up separated from their families. As you can see, men and women suffered horribly during this foul time in our history, especially the women. The story, “Incidents in the life of a Slave girl”, illustrates how the treatment of women was much worse than it was for men. This happens to be the case because women seem to be more “weaker” and more vulnerable to harsher conditions. Though men can be tortured and beaten; women can be sexual assaulted, mentally and physically abused, and forced
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Starting in chapter ten Linda, says “Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another.” This goes to show that women had no protection from their masters whatsoever and that they were the property, meaning their masters could do as please with them. Many women slaves were raped and forced to wet nurse children other than their own. They also usually didn’t get to choose when they got pregnant or who they got pregnant by. Linda’s master, Dr. Flint planned to get her pregnant and send her away with his child, but this was not the case. Instead “slavery” forced Linda to settle with some man and have his kids, just where she could be able to pick her children’s father. On page 932 she says, “Slavery still held in its poisonous grasp”, meaning that she ashamed of what she’d done because she did not love the man who fathered her child, but slavery forced her to be in those conditions. Once Dr. Flint was informed that Linda was pregnant again, he cut off all of her hair and abused her. These types of conditions wouldn’t affect men as much because men are unable to get pregnant, men already have short hair, and men can take more pain than women can, especially a pregnant
Starting in chapter ten Linda, says “Pity me, and pardon me, O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another.” This goes to show that women had no protection from their masters whatsoever and that they were the property, meaning their masters could do as please with them. Many women slaves were raped and forced to wet nurse children other than their own. They also usually didn’t get to choose when they got pregnant or who they got pregnant by. Linda’s master, Dr. Flint planned to get her pregnant and send her away with his child, but this was not the case. Instead “slavery” forced Linda to settle with some man and have his kids, just where she could be able to pick her children’s father. On page 932 she says, “Slavery still held in its poisonous grasp”, meaning that she ashamed of what she’d done because she did not love the man who fathered her child, but slavery forced her to be in those conditions. Once Dr. Flint was informed that Linda was pregnant again, he cut off all of her hair and abused her. These types of conditions wouldn’t affect men as much because men are unable to get pregnant, men already have short hair, and men can take more pain than women can, especially a pregnant