Abstract
I chose to deal with the relationships between the white masters and the black slave women during the slavery era in the United States first because it interests me a lot. Talking about it in class made me eager to dig deep into it and learn more. The slavery period is for me a moving topic. When we think about it, we often picture a black skinny and shackled man in our mind. And it is true that men were assigned to very hard labour in the fields and were often very badly treated. Black women were often doing housework, but it was as hard for them as it was for men outside, and maybe even worse. Indeed, I already know that women were submitted to a pain that was beyond the unbearable physical pain, they were submitted to psychological pain. During slavery, black slave women were separated from their children and husbands, were doomed by the law to spread an enslaved race, and were frequently sexually abused by the master and gave birth to his children.
