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Reminds me of white liberals who are very quick to say Black Lives Matter on social media but still support police, who are known to attack black people. White women wanted education, but ignored black women who also wanted education. Even Frederick Douglass's daughter was prohibited from attending classes because one white girl said in a vote that she did not want her to be in the classroom with them. The principal who issued the order was a women who called herself an abolitionist.

White women were witnessing that their rights as a human were being completely eradicated. Women have more or less always been doing work at home, from cooking to making soap and clothing, but it was more of a partnership amongst her partner. Now, it was turning more into what it is today with 'conservative' traditional values where the women is a stay at home mother with no rights and no political views to be shared. These women took part in the anti-slavery movement because they saw what it was like to be dehumanized.

This makes sense to me and it's a fascinating thing to think about because I assumed most resistance was used for revolts and attacks. I mean, how can you not want to kill your master? But it makes sense that in order for liberation to be achieved, one must learn and educate others with that knowledge. Slaves would learn to read and write and pass it on to others.

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.

Although bringing slaves from Africa was put to a stop, that didn't stop slave masters from thinking of ways to 'import' slaves. They decided they would do it naturally, have the slaves breed for them so they can sell the offspring elsewhere. In South Carolina, it was ruled in a court that slaves had no rights as mothers. Truly fucked up times.

Although I don't view Angela Davis the same anymore, I still would like to know how her thoughts were organized. It's important for me to understand each of these topics so that I can pass that knowledge on to others. I intend on annotating the book and may post the progress on here.

I'm stopping to read another book that captures my attention more. I will revisit this book at a later time.