Stratification through Sex Regulation
Throughout history the regulation of sex and race have always been synonymously manifested through distinctions and barriers. However, the fifteenth-century to the eighteenth-century, through the statutes, there was an increase development in racial stratification by regulating sex, changing identification, and therefore dehumanizing and subjecting both women and slaves. The excerpt, Virginia Regulates Sex among Servant, Slaves, and Masters and Kristen Fischer’s False, Feigned, and Scandalous Words disclose the relationship between sex regulation and notion of racial difference that caused tension and severe separation of races and class within colonial societies.
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They reduced slaves into one category, were there was no separation of female and male rights but instead they were subjected to be considered one category, further marking the barrier of class and race, we can see this in the 1643 poll tax, that included slaves but excluded women as they were seen as dependent as children, however this didn’t pertain to Negro women’s labor. While, other 1723 law titled “wives” of men of color, regardless of the wives’ races, to entitle the master in more production of tobacco. The regulation of sex in the colonies is linked to the development of racial slavery as it allowed for mulatto and Negro children to be seen as second citizens or below that, seeing that racism and prejudice was seen justifiable under the law. Sex was regulated in order to control the mixing of people, because mixing allowed for integration and “ further blurred racial boundaries and increased the population of free African Americans” (Fischer 146) Thus, these regulation were a response for, “ further prevention of the abominable mixture and spurious
Throughout history the regulation of sex and race have always been synonymously manifested through distinctions and barriers. However, the fifteenth-century to the eighteenth-century, through the statutes, there was an increase development in racial stratification by regulating sex, changing identification, and therefore dehumanizing and subjecting both women and slaves. The excerpt, Virginia Regulates Sex among Servant, Slaves, and Masters and Kristen Fischer’s False, Feigned, and Scandalous Words disclose the relationship between sex regulation and notion of racial difference that caused tension and severe separation of races and class within colonial societies.
The beginning of racial classification …show more content…
They reduced slaves into one category, were there was no separation of female and male rights but instead they were subjected to be considered one category, further marking the barrier of class and race, we can see this in the 1643 poll tax, that included slaves but excluded women as they were seen as dependent as children, however this didn’t pertain to Negro women’s labor. While, other 1723 law titled “wives” of men of color, regardless of the wives’ races, to entitle the master in more production of tobacco. The regulation of sex in the colonies is linked to the development of racial slavery as it allowed for mulatto and Negro children to be seen as second citizens or below that, seeing that racism and prejudice was seen justifiable under the law. Sex was regulated in order to control the mixing of people, because mixing allowed for integration and “ further blurred racial boundaries and increased the population of free African Americans” (Fischer 146) Thus, these regulation were a response for, “ further prevention of the abominable mixture and spurious