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Question 1

How does patriarchy work with racial imperialism to inform the ethics of the American
social structure?

Answer 1

First off the men vewied women as not as strong as workers and so women slaves were worth little and did not buy them. The encouraged white female immigrant to mary them to produce more slaves, but then a law was passed so they could not, if the women did they became slaves too! So then women slaves black gained value as a breeding program and benefiting them.

Question 2

2. How did the practice of slavery affect conceptions of black* women in particular? How was their experience unique?

Answer 2

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they were basically seen as livestock, as breeding property.

Question 3

3. What is the result of the tendency in scholarship to focus mainly on the impact of slavery on the black male consciousness?

Answer 3

Black women are left in the dust!

Question 4

4. How did the “cult of true womanhood” demoralize enslaved black females?

Answer 4

The black women wanted to be like white women and be supported by their husbands they found it demeaning to have to go out into the fields. this made them more suceptable to coherson by masters practicing the women dresses, which they them chose to wear in the feilds even though it was less practical.