Jennifer L. Morgan's Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder

European Validation of Slavery . In Jennifer L. Morgan’s article titled, “Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder”, the author says, “This article focuses on the way in which racialist discourse was deeply imbued with ideas about gender and sexual difference that, indeed, became manifest only in contact with each other.” From analyzing the article, we see that the author argues that even before the European travelers made any contact with Native American or African people, they already had the perception that they were superior to those of the African race. Given the evidence provided, it is clear that on their first encounter, European and Spanish travelers showed interest and admiration of the Indians and African women’s abilities and were later drawn away from that perspective while observing their physical and social differences to those of European women. Morgan’s implementation of evidence proves to show truth in her
He was in awe of such beauty. He depicted these dark women as greatly shaped and well molded humans with “far greater majesty and gracefulness, than I have seen in Queen Anne” (True and Exact History of…Barbados) (167). Despite Ligons view of their beauty, Europeans looked down upon the adoration he had for their uncivilized ways. Throughout the article, Indians and African woman were mocked for the way they looked. Europeans used their familiarity with the ladies of Europe to distinguish what they did not understand about the indigenous women.. European explorers began to view the physical aspects of these women as disgraceful. New travelers went to the New World and African with the expectation of women with long breasts and dangerous sexuality. The physical aspects of the Native and African Women gave European travelers a reason to disregard the idea that they could be “innocuous, unremarkable or even beautiful.”