In the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, men were enslaved more than women.
We never hear about the gender discrimination in slavery. In 19th century United States, more men than women were slaves and more women than men were freed slaves. Although there was always a difference, the difference increased in the Civil War because of all the black male soldiers who died, and women weren't sent off to war as soldiers.
This only looks at the ones in the US. Believe it or not, the vast majority of enslaved black people were sent to places like South America or the Caribbeans, and a minuscule percentage were in the US. When looking at all the enslaved black people from the 17th to 19th century, they found that in any region, men outnumbered women, with the gap being quite large in most regions.
Many slave owners were women, too.
Many historians often mistakenly believe slave owners were always men, but that's because female slave owners were overlooked. A lot of evidence now shows that women comprised 40% of slave owners. They were often cruel and violent just like male slave owners. In fact, George Washington's wife owned way more enslaved people than him. White women were trained to enslave black people from a very young age, and they even were often given slaves as early as 9 months old! According to History.com:
White women were active and violent participants in the slave market. They bought, sold, managed and sought the return of enslaved people, in whom they had a vested economic interest. Owning a large number of enslaved people made a woman a better marriage prospect. Once married, white women fought in courts to preserve their legal ownership over enslaved people (as opposed to their husband’s ownership), and often won. “For them, slavery was their freedom,” Jones-Rogers observes in her book.
Black men were raped, too.
We often hear about female slaves being raped, and how it was legal to rape black women. What we don't hear about is how often black men were raped by slave owners. They often were. They also were stripped naked and white people laughed at their genitals (i.e.: body shaming of men for their penis size even though they have no control or choice of their penis size). According to the AAIHS,
Foster begins Rethinking Rufus by examining how enslaved men’s bodies were depicted in Western art and sculptures that were widespread in the visual culture of slavery. Foster argues that enslaved men’s bodies were “symbols of enslaved manhood and sites of violation” that were objectified through a number of cultural forms including art and literature (12). The objectification of enslaved men depicted in paintings often resembled everyday acts of terror including the public inspection of Black men’s genitals, whippings and lashings, and bodily exposure due to lack of adequate clothing. Visual depictions of enslaved men that emphasized their genitalia and sexual prowess gave way to the prevailing myths of Black hypersexuality and the Black male rapist, an archetype that ensured the extralegal protection of white women from Black men who purportedly lacked control over their sexual urges. Foster also argues that while visual depictions of enslaved men’s bodies often highlighted their athleticism, strength, and muscularity, this same imagery eroticized enslaved men’s bodies in ways that fueled the physical abuses and sexual exploitation of enslaved men. Foster notes that these stereotypes found in eighteenth-century visual art contributed to the eventual punishment and national disenfranchisement of Black men.
White women also raped or sexually preyed on black men, too.
White women also had sexually abused black men, too. White women were authority figures or in a position of power over these black men, and white women had sex with black men, often even raping them forcibly. White women also threatened to falsely accuse black men of rape if black men didn't have sex with them. Because abortion was unregulated, and any woman was able to get an abortion back then, many white women used this advantage to sexually abuse black men without people knowing she fornicated out of wedlock, and was able to abortion "illegitimate" children, hiding the evidence that she sexually abused black men. As a result of this and the fact that men could not speak about being raped because people believe men cannot be raped, historical records of white women raping black men are often overlooked, and it could've been more common than we think, perhaps as common as white men raping enslaved black women.
Almost all lynching victims were men whereas a fair amount of victims were white.
Another interesting fact: virtually all lynching victims were men. Of all the 2,516 lynchings that happened from 1885 to 1901 in the US, 82.67% happened in the South and 13.75% happened in the North. 66.69% were black and 31.84% were white. 97.97% were men and 2.03% were women. Just 51 women lynched compared to 2,465 men. We always hear about how most victims were black, but no information about how virtually all were men.
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