Slavery In American Women

Slavery was not just a physical bondage on these human beings, but it was also an emotional bondage. Love is one of the strongest emotions any human can have, and is unstoppable once someone feels that way, no matter whom or what they love. These slaves had loved ones who were separated from them in the trade markets that they would never see again. Some of the women slaves inevitably fell in love with their masters, which would cause trouble in the future. Female slaves were to be specifically sold in the slave markets for sex, and this ruined these women emotionally and physically. These peoples' lives were ruined in all sense of the word, and their lives were hopeless. Though love is inevitable, slavery has ruined families, women physically, …show more content…
They twisted the Bible words and made it as though slavery was acceptable when the Bible says in a sense that everyone is equal. Slaves are human beings just like everyone else in the world. They have souls and love each other. Clotel, her sister Althesa, and her mom Currer were all separated from each other in a Negro Sale. Clotel went with a purchaser named Horatio Green, and Althesa and Currer went with Dick Walker. These slaves were all heartbroken because mothers watched their children and husbands get taken from them for forever, and not have that comfort of their loved ones with them. The family is so important to some people and never seeing them again would change lives …show more content…
These women were normally known as "quadroon women" (120). Gentlemen would attend these sales and pick out the best-fit women they thought would be most pleasurable and useful to them. For example, Clotel was sold to a Mr. French in Vicksburg after she separated from her love, Horatio Green, and Mr. French constantly tried to persuade Clotel to pleasure him, but she just wanted to be the servant he bought her for because she told him she had left her husband and did not want to be with another man. "As yet her new purchaser treated her with respectful gentleness, and sought to win her favour by flattery and presents, knowing that whatever he gave her he could take back again." Another part of the story is about the grand-daughters of Thomas Jefferson, Althesa's and her master, Henry Morton's daughters, were by law grown up to be slaves because their mother was a slave. They did not know this, however, until after their dad passed and they went away with his brother, James, but were eventually arrested as slaves and James arrested for attempting to take away his brother's "property." They were sold at an auction as said housekeepers, but they were bought for other purposes. One of the daughters, Ellen, realized her fate later on. "She soon, however, knew for what purpose she had been bought; and an educated and cultivated mind