User:Itsmajesty/Slavery in the United States

Portrayals of black men as hypersexual and savage along with ideals of protecting white women were predominant during this time and masked the experiences of sexual violence faced by black male slaves especially by white women. Not only were they subject to rape and sexual exploitation, sexual violence faced by slaves appeared in many forms. A black man could be forced by his slaveowner to rape another slave or even a free black woman. Forced pairings with other slaves including forced breeding, which could be mutually undesired by both slaves, were common. Through sexual and reproductive abuse slaveowners could further enforce their control over their slaves.

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