Part of our society feels the incessant need to whitewash the ugliness of white slaveowners having sexual relations with enslaved black women. In contrast to black women who were considered whores is the idea of white women, especially in the Antebellum South, who were seen as pure and virtuous. The world would resemble an amphitheatre of wild beasts.”Prudence, modesty and restraint were expected of a white Southern woman. In this case, a white woman, with not much to lose if found out, would most likely initiate the affair. Whatever the reasons, there are documented allegations of relationships between white women who initiated their enslaved black men.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 05, 2020 19:30 UTC