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https://archive.ph/qpAxo :

2019-02-26 | A New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery - The New York Times

'White slave-owning women were ubiquitous. '

'Not only did they profit from, and passionately defend, slavery, but the institution “was their freedom.” White women were more likely to inherit enslaved people than land. '

'If their husbands proved unsatisfactory slave owners in their eyes, the women might petition for the right to manage their “property” themselves, which they did, with imaginative sadism. '

'The full role of white women in slavery has long been one of the “slave trade’s best-kept secrets.” “They Were Her Property,” a taut and cogent corrective, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, examines how historians have misunderstood and misrepresented white women as reluctant actors. '

'She participated, but she didn’t know — not everything. '


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