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Pros And Cons Of Women In Slavery
Along with the beatings slave women suffered from abuse unique to their gender. Women bore many burdens during slavery. Women slaves had to take care of their masters and masters children, families, and faced the every present threat of sexual exploitation. Aside from having to deal with the physical and sexual abuse from the master, they fear the physical abuse from the
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