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The first study focusing on enslaved women’s experiences was by Lucille Mathurin Mair on their INTRODUCTION: WOMEN, SLAVERY, AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD. Brenda E. Stevenson. This preference was often reflected in sale prices: Native women could be worthorpercent more than men. The layered secrecy served many purposes, three in particular: it denied would-be critics of slavery the evidence to condemn its inhumane brutality; it allowed women to be female males, most enslaved Indigenous Americans were women and children. This is the first encyclopedia to focus on the daily experiences and roles of female slaves in the United States, from colonial times to official abolition provided by theth amendment to the Constitution in Download reference work entry PDF our national consciousness, and the role of women in this dark chapter of the American past is largely under-examined. From the beginning, the lives of America’s enslaved women have been shroud-ed in mystery. For women in bondage, the body and home were sites of domination and resistance, because of hard labor in the fields and sexual exploitation in the home: “the body This was so for multiple reasons: because enslaved women's reproductive labor produced wealth for slave-owners, because the definition of slavery as heritable only Annai Meenambal Shivaraj the first Scheduled Caste women president of the South India Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF) presided over the SCF Women's Conference held Through acts of covert and overt resistance, enslaved women effectively subverted the Swahili slave system to achieve outcomes that positively impacted their own livelihoods The study of women and slavery in the world and in Africa is relatively new. Sexual exploitation and women’s reproductive capabilities were part of the reason for this price premium This was so for multiple reasons: because enslaved women's reproductive labor produced wealth for slave-owners, because the definition of slavery as heritable only mattered in light of reproductive labor that women performed, because African and African American women's reproduction lay at the base of European men's justifications for slavery, a Women made up a large portion of those enslaved. The chapter considers the history of enslaved African women, considering how gender affected their experience, how women coped and resisted their enslavement, and how their lives were transformed by the trade.
