We have the same right as white people to indulge in our deepest sexual desires. Historians have sometimes seemed uncertain whether these patterns stemmed from ideas about sexual difference or from sexual differences themselves. In , Carter set up Breaking Free, a support service for women and girls in prostitution in Minneapolis. Enslaved women in every state of the antebellum union considered freedom, but it was a livelier hope in the North than in most of the South. Accessed April 29, Compounding the problem of understanding gender and resistance is that many more covert forms, like feigning sickness and working slowly, were available to women and men.
Hudson ed. Yet slaves were even more vulnerable than inmates to sexual exploitation. Klein and Ben Vinson, iii: African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean Oxford, contains chapters on demography and family, but none devoted to women or gender. Barbara Bush and Jennifer Morgan have shown that references to African women's exposed breasts dominated European texts, denoting p. Brigid Hains Editorial Director. Robertson and Martin A. Shoe Boots was a Cherokee warrior who had married, according to Cherokee custom, a young white female who was captured during an Indian raid in Kentucky in
