tree_portal quoted Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
'Woman' became synonymous in the prevailing propaganda with 'mother' and 'housewife' and both 'mother' and 'housewife' bore the fatal mark of inferiority. But among Black female slaves, this vocabulary was nowhere to be found.
— Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (Page 12)
Once again this shows that gender did not seem to have been an issue with the slave masters. At the time of industrialization, the idea of femininity seemed to have changed because less white women were in the labor force because they were no longer using tools that industrialization replaced. I imagine women at this time were at home more, while the man was at work. That whole idea did not carry over to slaves.