Childhood And Sexual Identity Under Slavery
Childhood and Sexual Identity under Slavery With so much going on back in 1850’s, especially the biggest issue was slavery. We tend to only think that adults were only slaves but forgot that children who were African American were also slaves too that were being put to work just like their parents. Anthony S. Parent, Jr. and Susan Brown Wallace both teamed up to collaborate studying the issue of children and slavery which is the untold story of the children during the times on slavery and their knowledge of sex. After reading the studies of their work, it was very shocking and surprising that little attention was brought up among the children during the slavery time. It was devastating to hear such treatment happening to poor innocent children who were born into slavery. The purpose was to expose the truth about how much children as slaves knew about sex and things related to the issue. Which proved that children who grew up as slaves knew very little about the matter and never had a clue about things of that nature. As a child who was African American during the slavery era, very little was taught to them about life and growing up. Which as children one of the biggest part about growing up is learning about sex, love, and the relationship between a man and a woman, and also what their roles were in their lives. The article who have had many former slaves come out and talk about their experience as a kid during the time had many different stories about how they were being taught and treated at the time. Some were never taught anything more than to just do the work that the master told them to do. Others were more of a prop to show off to other slave owners, and then there were the more “privileged” slaves that were fortunate to have had a kinder master. They were often either arranged to be married when they got older to re produce or secretly got married. The purpose of this article was to tell the untold story of the children during the slavery era. This