"The Legacy of Slavery"

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This paper analyzes the article and give the writer's personal opinions. It asks whether the author presents a valid explanation of the different worlds occupied by slave women and white women. It looks at how the slave women overcame the oppression of their world to live in society. It states that the differences between black and white women certainly exist, but ultimately, Black women are not so different from their white sisters; they both want to nurture their families and live a decent life.

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"Angela Y. Davis voices some extremely compelling arguments about slave women in her article, and she backs them up with clear illustrations. For example, she writes about work in the lives of white and Black women, and how it differs. "Proportionately, more Black women have always worked outside their homes than have their white sisters. The enormous space that work occupies in Black women's lives today follows a patter established during the very earliest days of slavery" (Davis 157). She also clearly shows the similarities between the women and men's work in the fields, but defines how the masters consistently mistreated Black women. Their sexuality delineated them from Black men, because they could be abused and exploited, and often were. As Davis notes, "But women suffered in different ways as well, for they were victims of sexual abuse and other barbarous mistreatment that could only be inflicted on women" (Davis 158)."

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