Uncovering the untold stories of rape in the slavery era.
Sanitizing the truth is just but a waste of time as one day the secrets find their way to the top line. History is a significant source of our earlier life or the life lived by the people who we call our great great grandparents. We seek to know how they lived to help us find an anchor in our lives, and find direction.
In history, we learn about colonialism, an era that left Africans paralyzed and begging up to date. Along with colonialism were the slave trade and perpetual economic exploitation. The slave trade highlights forced labor, low wages, and interracial prospects. However, our great great great grandparents forgot to mention rape and death, it feels like they lied.
Long ago during the slave trade era, slaves who were mostly men were enslaved together with their wives and children. This made them vulnerable. They were made to work forcefully to feed their children and avoid shameful acts of rape upon their wives. Our ancestors focused on racial prejudice and yet racial prejudice healed with time but the untold stories of rape as a means to acquire male slaves' cooperation were not only fully ignored but also brushed off the historic
books.
Fiction movies and stories told of Slavery barely mention rape as it sounds disgusting for a white male to rape a black woman. The term ‘white masculinity is no longer in our dictionaries as it hurts the ego of the Americans and might stir the Black Americans. It's not a scar anymore the wound is removed from the body part to avoid heartaches.
As blood is red, and Snow is white the bitter facts remain the same, uncovering the truth is so sad, and painful, and may cause anger. It makes the tears flow from your eyes like the movie, “Letters to God" It takes a part of you that will never be recovered, it opens your eyes but you
can’t do anything about it. But when all hope is gone and you are in despair you feel the power to want to change your present for a better tomorrow. Today you empower yourself with immense knowledge so that tomorrow you will want to tell your kids that the world is full of monsters, but you fought for their freedom and survival.
Long ago during the slave trade era, slaves who were mostly men were enslaved together with their wives and children. This made them vulnerable. They were made to work forcefully to feed their children and avoid shameful acts of rape upon their wives. Our ancestors focused on racial prejudice and yet racial prejudice healed with time but the untold stories of rape as a means to acquire male slaves' cooperation were not only fully ignored but also brushed off the historic
books.
Fiction movies and stories told of Slavery barely mention rape as it sounds disgusting for a white male to rape a black woman. The term ‘white masculinity is no longer in our dictionaries as it hurts the ego of the Americans and might stir the Black Americans. It's not a scar anymore the wound is removed from the body part to avoid heartaches.
As blood is red, and Snow is white the bitter facts remain the same, uncovering the truth is so sad, and painful, and may cause anger. It makes the tears flow from your eyes like the movie, “Letters to God" It takes a part of you that will never be recovered, it opens your eyes but you
can’t do anything about it. But when all hope is gone and you are in despair you feel the power to want to change your present for a better tomorrow. Today you empower yourself with immense knowledge so that tomorrow you will want to tell your kids that the world is full of monsters, but you fought for their freedom and survival.
Yours intriguing
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