Chattel Slavery and the Southern Belle
“Chattel slavery is the most common form of slavery known to Americans. This system, which allowed people — considered legal property — to be bought, sold and owned forever, was lawful and supported by the United States and European powers from the 16th – 18th centuries.”- Google
Black American slaves were subjected to sexual violence, assault, rape and much more. Schizoaffective Disorder is interesting. It perplexes me from one extreme to the next. Fundamentalism will not save you from sexual exploitation and sexual exploitation will not save you from Fundamentalism. Which leads me away from God. scratch, scratch.
The version of the story I’m interested in is the sexual exploitation of the Black Slave and the protection of the purity of the Southern Belle. Southern Belles were kept as virgins while the slave masters exploited the mammys. Much, much later, Suffragettes fought to abolish slavery as well as end inequality for women: “Two great early 19th-century social movements sought to end slavery and secure equal rights for women. Gerrit Smith and Susan B. Anthony helped shape these two movements.”- Google
I’m not an expert in the history of Black Slavery, but I’m called with my mental illness to address and discover difficult topics that rage in my mind. Black women are still exposed to sexualization, exploitation and gender based violence. I don’t think I need to cite this. It’s everywhere in the media coined as entertainment. They’ve gone from slavery to, supporting in a women’s movement and the synergy is real.
They don’t care if I have a disability. They’re calm and feeling fine about the industry that prevents many women from ever ever accomplishing career goals and having safety walking home at night. They’ll human traffic a woman with a broken pelvis. And then there’s extremist Fundamentalist Islam, they’ll stone you to death for talking about it. Catholicism has the same history with the Residential Schools, the sexual abuses in the Catholic Church and the fact that Hitler was a Catholic. Where do we go for help when we’re touched by ‘God’.
White men can be a dark evil. I have come to believe that the Old Southern Belle, today is an ally to the Black women and men who have escaped horrible circumstances. White women are taking off their clothes and fulfilling a tender sexual need. The Suffragettes were never exposed to high society. It influenced and impacted their opinions. They were never preserved like the rich women on the plantations. Their feet were never clean and the Mosque was never empty. End this violence today.
