what was the role for women during slavery?

Question

like why did they gotten raped.

Answer 1

Several reasons one being to satisfy the males and also because economically it made sense to impregnate a female since there child could be sold for a profit. All women free or enslaved were considered the property of males. I would choose to focus on women who truly made a difference during slavery such as Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Jacobs or Soujourner Truth. These women worked at emacipating the slaves, They showed courage and determination and fought against the odds for what they believed was justice and equality. We as women need to focus on empowering each other not dwelling on the negative aspects of sisterhood.

Answer 2

Read a history book for God's sake! Women white or black were considered chattel and therefore had no right to say yes or no to anything. That's where the Boston marriage came in. If a woman was fortunate enough to be born into money and inherit it, quite often they wouldn't marry and end up living with another female. Then you had your independence and could do as you pleased. Otherwise, there was always some man " lording over you".

Answer 3

I'm going to assume you mean the women who were slaves. They had multiple roles fufilling jobs on a plantation that are stereotypically women's jobs. These would include: raising children, sewing, and cooking. I imagine a good number of them also worked in fields. Being raped wasn't a role but it happened because the women were in a vulnerable position. If they fought back or someone fought back on their behalf he/she was punished because she was considered property and (some) slave masters felt they therefore had a right to use their "property" in this way.

Answer 4

the role for women during slavery was to do as they were told. they were property, just like a horse. as far as rape is concerned, if they were owned by their master, it was not seen as rape. the raping occurred on the ships coming from africa. the ship hands raped them before they even were purchased.

Answer 5

Why don't you ask yourself because we're in slavery now and will be forever. No matter what. So men had better buck their ideas up.

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Richard Glover
October 28, 2006

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Answer 6

Your question was nonspecific as to which women and which slavery, so I will give a brief history.
The role for women has traditionally been housekeeping, child care, and pleasing men. This was true whether a woman was considered free or a slave.
Most slaves in colonial times were white people (poor, criminal, immigrants, etc.). While most were portrayed as indentured servants, only a small percentage actually fit the profile of an indentured servant as taught in history. Slavery was essentially white slavery until around the 1800's when the poor and working class whites and women gradually gained the rights of citizenship. At this time there was a decline in white slavery and a surge in African slavery. Slaves were not called slaves for the first couple hundred years. They were refered to as servants.
Black men became citizens under the 14th amendment and women became citizens under the 19th amendment. Women in America had NO rights until the 1800's and their only protections were as property and under the property rights of their fathers, brothers and husbands. If a woman was abused, the abuser would only be punished if he had no property rights over a woman, and if a man in her family was willing to and could afford to demand retribution under his own property rights. White women gained some rights in around the 1800's but had very few rights and were not citizens until 1920 when ALL women became citizens.
As to rape...normal men have plenty of socially acceptable ways to satisfy sexual urges. Rapists comit rape to hurt and dominate their victims, regardless of the status of their victim. However, women with lower social status have historically been more vulnerable to rape.

Answer 7

Their role was about the same aas it is now for modern women. They work all day and half the night as well. Then they wake up still exhausted and start the whole thing all over again. The appreciation for their efforts is about the same, and although they are certainly not all 'raped' today, they are sexually coerced into living the sick, degrading and perverted new sexual norms.

If you want to see what slavery was like, just look at your mother's life. The new name is 'relationship.' Sometimes known as marriage.

Answer 8

Women under slavery were under a double bind - they had to work like the guys, and they were also specially exploited as women.

Some women slaves did farm work or construction just like the guys, others worked in the house as maids, cooks, nannies, midwives, wet nurses ect.

In addition, the master also expected women slaves to give birth to the next generation of slaves.

Slave women were expected to have husbands, and to have lots of kids with their men (no maternity leave, or course - typically, they worked at their jobs til the day of delivery and were expected back in the fields the next day).

Also, many slave masters raped their women slaves. This was both a source of new slaves and a way for the master to live out his perverted fantasies.

Household slaves in particular were subject to rape, since many of them were born of rapist slave fathers and raped slave mother. Consequently they were more lightskinned than the slaves who worked in the field, and the White slave owners were more attracted to lightskinned Black women then they were to dark skinned.

In many cases, slave owners raped their own slave daughters or the slave half sisters of their wives.

The most famous case of this was Thomas Jefferson.

When he got married, his father-in-law gave him a 14 year old house slave as a "wedding gift".

Her name was Sally Hemmings, she was a lightskinned Black teenage girl, and she was the slave daughter of Jefferson's father-in-law.

In effect, Jefferson had his own 14 year old sister-in-law as a slave!!!

Worse yet, Jefferson regularly raped his 14 year old sister-in-law/slave Sally Hemmings, and he had a dozen children with her.

By modern standards,Thomas Jefferson was an incestuous pedophile - but back in the day, that kind of perversion was an everyday thing among slave owners!

He wasn't the only one getting down like that - just the most famous!

Answer 9

Form, Function,and physical, emotional,and spiritual, endurance.And being able to hold your tongue at the appropriate times sure helped!!

Answer 10

the role was as a brood mare. , to produce more slaves, they were not looked at as human, but stock.