Slavery: The White Woman's Burden

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. Chapters Mistresses of the Market 0:00-12:48 I belong to de mistis 12:49-15:39 Missus done her own bossing 15:40-16:38 She thought she could find a better market 16:39-18:55 Wet nurse for hire 18:55-24:21 Her slaves have been liberated and lost to her 24:22-25:28 A most unprecedented robbery 25:29-26:28 Epilogue 26:29-29:00 Works Cited Gordon, 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-women-slaveowners-they-were-her-property. 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