![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ophelia Whitley was a formerly enslaved woman from Wake County, North Carolina. 11, North Carolina, Part 2, Jackson-Yellerday Ophelia Whitley Image 376 of Federal Writers’ Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. This chapter argues that black women’s positions in slavery need more scholarship granted towards the topic to be able to adequately study the lives of African American women throughout slavery. Most accounts of which will be from interviews and or texts with authors who were enslaved, with other authors coming from more modern academic backgrounds. Throughout this chapter, there will be an extensive analysis of the daily interactions of African American women in the Antebellum South during slavery, and how they navigated everyday life. The erasure of women’s experience in slavery provides limitations for understanding women’s position in both the private and public sectors during slavery in the Antebellum South. While this narrative is true and should be analyzed extensively to understand the true perceptions of enslaved persons, the narrative of women has largely been erased. 13 The African American Women and Her Labor in Antebellum South Slaveryįor years, slavery, whether the narrative told domestically or internationally, has been told from a perspective that most regarded only men and the punishments they received. ![]()
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