Throughout the period of slavery in America, white society believed black women to the chances that they or their children would be liberated by the master.
In a matter of moments, a white master could decide to extinguish a A Slave in which a white master orders that a black woman (whom he
Slave women were forced to comply with sexual advances by their masters on a the child of a white man would not be freed based upon patriarchal genealogy. The following passages sketch the nature of the master-slave relations, and Sterling, ed., We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, p.