Slavery: The White Woman's Burden | White Women as Slave Owners

Slavery: The White Woman's Burden
White Women as Slave Owners

Today we're discussing Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers' work, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. This work delves deep into the realities of white female slave ownerships, demonstrating the ways in which white women leveraged competing systems of oppression, particularly race and gender, to attain power, status, and wealth. ChaptersMistresses of the Market 0:00-12:48I belong to de mistis 12:49-15:39Missus done her own bossing 15:40-16:38She thought she could find a better market 16:39-18:55Wet nurse for hire 18:55-24:21Her slaves have been liberated and lost to her 24:22-25:28A most unprecedented robbery 25:29-26:28Epilogue 26:29-29:00Works CitedGordon, Tiye A. The Fancy Trade and the Commodification of Rape in The ..., scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4647&context=etd. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024.Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property. Yale University Press, 2020. Little, Becky. “The Massive, Overlooked Role of Female Slave Owners.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/news/white-wom....en-slaveowners-they- Accessed 5 Mar. 2024.Lydia Maria Child: Charity Bowery, www.sojust.net/literature/child_charity.html. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024. King, Henrietta. "“Henrietta King”; an excerpt from Weevils in the Wheat (1976)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 05 Mar. 2024