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Slavery and the Slave Trade, with its crude levelling of sexual distinctions, meant that African women shared every inch of the man’s spiritual and physical odyssey.

Lucille Mathurin Mair (historian)¹

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.

Harriet Jacobs (African American slave)²

As my two estates are at the two extremities of the island, I am entitled to say from my own knowledge … that book-keepers and overseers kick black women in the belly from one end of Jamaica to the other.

Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis,

Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834)³