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However, what do we know about the women? All too often, the picture of female slaves is only painted in contrast to male slaves. In large plantations, gender roles were enforced and women tended to have less physically demanding tasks on the plantations. Additionally, there were some women who were given more domestic tasks as house slaves. Does this mean that they had it easier? No, they had it much worse. Women, specifically young girls, started with a lower standing in society than their male counterparts. They started in a more vulnerable position and had less control over their lives. Some of the most heart-wrenching stories about slavery are the repeated rapes and sexual abuse of slave girls by their masters. Girls were forced to comply with the sexual advances of their masters or face harsh punishments – such as being beaten, more aggressively raped, or even sold away from their families. Even worse, many of the masters were married – and their sexual relations with the slaves often angered their wives. Due to highly patriarchal society, most wives took out their frustrations on the slave girls rather than their husbands. This then left the slave girls in a precarious position in which they were punished by the wives of their sexual abusers. They were unable to escape this dangerous cycle of physical and mental abuse. An example of this practice comes from Stanley Felstein’s Once a Slave: The Slave Views of Slavery, in which he writes:

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. Born in bondage: Growing up enslaved in the antebellum South (Harvard UP, 2009). Some people draw up a slave contract that defines the relationship in explicit detail. These contracts may also deal with domestic arrangements (such as cleanliness, home duties) and interpersonal relationship matters (such as issues of deference, language, etc.), besides the sexual arrangements. Typically, they would provide that the Master or Mistress has the exclusive authority in all matters relating to the body and behavior of the slave, including underwear and other clothing, social relations outside of the arrangement, etc. Although such contracts are not enforceable in the ways legal contracts are, they can be useful for defining in written form the limits of the arrangement between the signatories, and for documenting the consensual nature of the relationships they define between them. [6]White, Deborah Gray. Ar'n't I a woman?: Female slaves in the plantation South (WW Norton & Company, 1999). Sommerville, Diane Miller. Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South (U of North Carolina Press, 2004). Rutagarama, Naomi. "Female Slavery in the South". Prezi. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 . Retrieved December 9, 2013.

Sexual slavery is a consensual exchange of power by the submissive to the dominant, though the scope of the surrender of discretion may be limited and may be withdrawn at any time. A Master/slave "relationship" is often a long-term relationship, comparable in duration to vanilla relationships, whereas a Dominant/submissive "relationship" could also be of the same duration or shorter - even lasting only the duration of a scene, for example, which may range from a number of minutes to hours. Depending on their contract and if the slave is willing to not be monogamous, a slave may be traded by their Master/Mistress, facilitated by sex club events, personals in BDSM interest magazines, or internet based social networks. [8] Commonly, a slave is also said to be "collared" if the relationship has become serious enough to the point where the slave has earned a collar in the eyes of their Master or Mistress. Though not every slave wears a physical slave collar, other jewelry may be worn as a token of their dedication and servitude to their Master/Mistress. Glymph, Thavolia, et al. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge UP, 2008). online Nature of the relationship [ edit ] A mistress and her male slave perform for the audience at a 2009 sex show in Austria. Addington, Deborah (1993), Fantasy Made Flesh: The Essential Guide to Erotic Roleplay (1sted.), Greenery Press, ISBN 978-1-890159-47-4Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897), author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now considered an "American classic". Historically, the most vulnerable populations in any given community are those that are marginalized. Social status can be determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to one’s family, race, gender, wealth, and occupation. With that in mind, who could be more vulnerable than those individuals ripped from their homes and forced into enslavement in a foreign country? Terminology [ edit ] Model dressed as the fictional slave-girl Kajira from John Norman's Gor novels a b Jacobs, Harriet (1861). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Boston, MA: Thayer & Eldridge. pp.117, 285. The institution of slavery in North America existed from the earliest years of the colonial history of the United States until 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States except as punishment for a crime. It was also abolished among the sovereign Indian tribes in Indian Territory by new peace treaties which the US required after the Civil War.

Snitow, Ann Barr; Stansell, Christine; Thompson, Sharon (1983), Powers of desire: the politics of sexuality, New feminist library, Monthly Review Press, ISBN 978-0-85345-610-0

Hudson Jr, Larry E., ed. Working toward freedom: Slave society and domestic economy in the American South (U of Rochester Press, 1994).

See also: Slavery in the United States §Fancy ladies "Slaves Waiting for Sale." Women and children slaves, dressed in new clothes, wait to be sold in Richmond, Virginia, in the 19th century. Based on a sketch of 1853. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Alexis. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South (UNC Press Books, 2021). Nunley, Tamika Y. At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, DC (UNC Press Books, 2021). excerptHowever, some calling themselves "slave" may only be submissive within a sexual context/activity whilst others are also submissive within other or all aspects of the relationship, "sex-slave" or "slave" respectively. Martin, Joan. More than chains and toil: A Christian work ethic of enslaved women (John Knox Press, 2000). Various forms of symbolism are sometimes used to affirm the owner/slave relationship. These include wearing the owner's collar, being registered in a slave register, adopting (sometimes legally changing to) a name chosen by the owner, or engaging in a public declaration or ritualized ceremony of some type. The Powers of Congress to Enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments". University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law. April 27, 2013.