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QUESTION
Celia, A Slave
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Melton McLaurin notes that the Celia's defense “challenged the role of white man as the protector of women within southern society . . .[and] challenged the concept of male honor, a crucial element of the South's social system.” What does Celia's story and “the sexual politics of slavery” have to say about antebellum families and women generally?
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Answer
What Celia's Story and “the Sexual Politics of Slavery” say about Antebellum Families and Women
The inclusive point of McLaurin in narrating Celia’s story entails using the experience of slave and one family to draw bigger conclusions in regards to slavery in the society. McLaurin as well tells the basic political climate of the era and how occupied everybody was with slavery on the brink of the American Civil war. Celia’s story shows the desperate situations of women and the Antebellum Families. The story highlights the life of several slaves, and exposes everyone to the levels of injustice afforded the slavery people in antebellum America (McLaurin, 2009). Furthermore, Celia’s story shows how women went extra mile to even kill their masters to defend themselves against sexual abuse. Women were sexually vulnerable and powerlessness as victims of domestic violence and rape, and therefore, tried to protect themselves using personal means since there was no legal ways.
Celia's experience outlines the issue of white women versus slave women. In the slavery part of antebellum south, race and class defined the power one had. Celia’s story, therefore, highlights slavery as an evil establishment which kept the Antebellum Families in bondage both physically and morally to allow the rich white people keep power and control over the black (McLaurin, 2009). The life of Celia shows how slavery put individuals, Antebellum Families and Women, in particular situations which forced them to make and execute individual decisions or resolutions of a profoundly moral nature. It also demonstrates how slave women were dominated by practically everybody for intimacy. The sexual politics of slavery presents a precise paradigm of the power relationship within the bigger society. Black women slaves were principally powerless and defenseless in the slave society, and were not able to lawfully guard themselves from the sexual and physical assaults white males.
References
Aslam, S (2019). Instagram by the Numbers: Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts. Omnicore. Retrieved from https://www.omnicoreagency
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