It would not be wrong to claim that the status of
women slaves in Islamic society was formed according to the Koran.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF WOMEN IN CUSTODY &
WOMEN SLAVESIn reaction to these conditions, abolitionists strove to remind their audiences that black
women slaves were not entirely defined by their bodies and the labor they performed.
Patton rehearses the racist stereotypes of
women slaves and then asserts that "female slaves rejected this definition of themselves.
Morris opens her account with a brief overview of the history of women and song--from Jewish women of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe to
women slaves in North America to working women involved in union organizing--and of the women's movement in the United States.
These statements evoked the dual mythical imagery of African American
women slaves that Deborah Gray White has exposed--both Jezebel and Mammy.
The caliphate of Baghdad, with its clever and educated
women slaves and its 'considerable storytelling activity', provides an integrating frame for Tawaddud, and it is the place where 'all of the elements which make up [her] story come together' (p.
5) Shifting focus to ancillae or
women slaves may help explain how such thinking persisted even after slavery itself ceased to be an essential institution for agricultural production.
