Out Of The House Of Bondage Analysis

During the antebellum time period in the south, many black slaves were subject to a tremendous amount of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by their owners. Almost every time a harsh and violent slave owner is talked about, it is assumed that it is a white man inflicting all of the violence and torture. Although that is true that white male slave owners did impost a lot of this violence, they were not alone. It has recently been shed to light that female slave owners were just as violent, if not more violent than their male counterparts. In Thavolia Glymph’s work Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, she gives empirical evidence that white women in the South were more cruel than many historians had made them out to be. …show more content…
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Unfortunately all good things come to an end because “after master’s marriage all things changed” (p. 12). The new mistress used religion as a way to preach to them that they “were poor miserable sinners, with the wrath of God abiding on” (p. 12) them. This backs up Glymph’s claim that “the same mistress who put out a female slave’s eye at the dinner table, on Sunday mornings read the Bible to her slaves, punctuating the reading with pictures of the devil, who, she explained, punished slaves who stole or told lies” (p. 29). This shows that despite the ideology that southern Mistresses were kind women, this mistress was not the only one that used their power through religious teachings to bellite slaves and make themselves higher than