Enjoying the book so far! It was really interesting to hear about the roles of men and women in the enslaved families and how it wasnt as strict out of necessity. I liked hearing about the differences between the dynamics of enslaved families in comparison to white families like how women with different fathers to their children were still wed and children were still given the names of other family members who may have been sold and not even be around to see the child grow up. I did note that the enslaved children didn't perform field labor until the age of 10 and found it interesting in comparison to the ages some child laborers would later work from after the abolition of slavery in that form and before child labor laws.

I found it so fucking gross that one dude tried to say that slaveowners had "love" for the slaves they raped and the children produced from said rape that were still fucking enslaved. Its even worse than the people who try to say that families that had one slave loved them like family (that they happen to own??)

When describing Prudence's efforts to educate Black girls resulting in her basically being shunned from her entire town it made me think of how that will likely happen if anyone successfully builds a leftist commune in the US. Although itll also likely result in death from cops and chuds.

The racism in the anti slavery movement wasnt at all surprising considering how many racist liberals and "leftists" still say Black lives matter while jumping at any chance to be antiblack. Also wasnt surprised by it in the women's rights movement as i personally have met many white women who claim to be feminists (or even anti racists) and talk over all women of color and clearly think of us as less.

Kinda disappointed that the book didnt address that Sojourner Truth never said "Aint I a Woman" :/ Sojouner was born in (dutch) New york and she didnt have the dialect of a southern slave. The version that she's known for was purposely and incorrectly spread by Frances Dana Gage, a white woman who had to add the n word to it :/// Gage was an abolitionist and did it to help the suffrage and women's rights movements but still erased the identity and changed the words of a previously enslaved Black woman so she deserves plenty of criticism.

You can and should read more here: https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/

The website has what's close to the original version and you can compare Gage's version to that

I was reading this book while my work is slow but I'm not done with part 1. I think this is will be particularly poignant given the racist killings that occurred over the weekend, hence Davis' video "On Violence".

The book starts with a thorough review of the study of black women's role in slavery. Again, pretty disturbing and upsetting stuff to go through. Please take care of yourselves when reading triggering content.

Still working on part one but I've finished the first chapter.

I find it very interesting to hear the source of the right wing claim that black people are poor because of "absent fathers" rather than the obvious policu of disenfranchisement that they suffered through.

Her last bit about how Uncle Tom's cabin helping white people sympathize with the abolitionist movement while basically painting an false image of what a black woman thought and suffered through while enslaved also left an impression on me. It was clear that at that point, the fundamental experience between white and black women were completely separated, whereas before the movement for femininity, white women were also laborers producing value. Idk, I don't have fully formed thoughts on this yet.

The graphic scenes regarding the day to day living through slavery was pretty hard to read though, Jesus christ its rage fuel.

I have more notes written down but I don't have them on me. Just getting some thoughts on the page here. I'm excited to keep reading though

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Shaping up to be a pretty neat book so far! Pretty ironic that the sheer brutality of the slavery system accidentally gave women equal rights in the gender department (aside from the rape and having your baby stolen). Also pretty funny that the womens' rights movement was largely started by middle class white women being bored out of their minds. Of course this leads to a lot of liberalism later down the line, but it's nice they had a little bit of intersectionality by acknowledging abolitionism as tied closely to their own liberation.

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