Professor John McCurdy
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Right.
So, I mean, it's one of these things if we're talking about African-Americans, we know that there is certain African-Americans who will engage in sex work, which makes sense because if you're a free African-American woman, you're going to be at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale.
Right.
Women in general don't have a lot of other employment opportunities.
So this is one way of making money in terms of enslaved women.
They're being prostituted without being prostitutes, right?
So they're not receiving money for any of their work, sexual or otherwise.
And slavery is really based upon this.
idea of exploitation, physical exploitation, as well as labor exploitation.
And so we have stories of that, you know, young men will help themselves to the bodies of enslaved women as a practice, right?
And this becomes more notorious in the 19th century as the Civil War approaches.
And of course, the enslavers or the masters will be helping themselves to the bodies of the women because this produces offspring who can either be employed on the plantation or sold.
I mean, in terms of beyond that, I mean, we do know you do have a few stories of sort of interracial sex that it's it becomes very taboo in the early 19th century in the United States for obvious reasons, which, of course, when something becomes really taboo, it becomes, you know, really desirable and everybody starts fantasizing about it.
So there's an erotica that emerges at this point.
And we know that in places like at least New Orleans, there's what's called the fancy trade.
So light skinned black women would fetch a higher price as prostitutes in New Orleans.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm not sure what the payment is, but there are various times the governor of Virginia and then later one of the generals in the British Army will offer proclamation saying, if you're enslaved and you come to fight for the British Army, we will guarantee your freedom.
Well, this is one of the... We know when the British evacuate New York City, again, the last place they evacuate in what becomes the United States.
I think it's about 3,000 African-Americans will go with them, many of whom were runaway enslaved people from the South or from other places.
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