Well if you go back through history during Slavery in the Western Hemisphere Many White Slave masters/owners took
sexual liberties with
slave women and Black women and rewarded obedient
slave behavior with favors, while rebellious
slaves were brutally punished. A strict hierarchy among
slaves (from privileged house
slaves and skilled artisans down to lowly field hands) helped keep them divided and less likely to organize against their masters.
There is ample evidence of sexual relations, from rapes to what appear to be relatively symbiotic romantic partnerships, between white slave masters and black women in the Antebellum South. Much rarer were sexual relations between white women and black slave men, yet they too occurred. Using an intersectional socio-historical analysis, this paper explores the factors that contributed or may have contributed to the incidence of sexual encounters between elite white women and slave men, the
power dynamics embedded in them, and their implications in terms of sexual consent. The paper demonstrates how upper-class white women who engaged in these relationships used sex as an instrument of power, simultaneously perpetuating both white supremacy and patriarchy.
T
he fact that affairs between planter-class women and slaves were relatively uncommon is unsurprising; white women in the South were sexually restricted as compared to their male counterparts, and nineteenth-century contraceptive techniques were not nearly effective or accessible enough to ward off the possibility of pregnancy. Still, sexual contact between white women and black men did occur in slaveholding societies, more often than perhaps many are aware. The following is a list of factors that did or may have contributed to the incidence of such relations.First, even though the sexuality of Southern white women was, as stated, heavily regulated, women were not as entirely sexually repressed as one might assume. The dangers of having sexual relations with a black man rather than a white man were enormous in terms of the possibility of producing a mixed-race baby. However, although birth control and abortion methods in the nineteenth-century were not as widely used, safe, or accessible as they are today, they existed. Condoms made out of ******* skin, membrane, oiled silk, and rubber were used along with other contraceptive techniques to prevent pregnancy.