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Hello Professor and Classmates,
I hope all is well.
Do you see similarities in their experiences, based on their status as women?
Holding the status of a women back during those times were all around rough regardless of race or ethnicity. There are some similarities that overlap because they share that womanhood as a commonality. Work was labor intensive. Their voices were not heard and were often disrespected. They were cheated out of wages. What role did geography, race and socioeconomic status play in their experiences, and how did they intersect with their status as women?
It seams that out on the planes, it was indeed more free than within the confines of the newly established states. Women labored as the men did. Men loved to have the company of their wives. In traveling woman’s account she recalls the first bull buffalo she encountered saying that “We took the trouble to chase him so as to have a near view Sister Spaulding and myself got out of the waggon and ran up on the bluff to see him. Husband was quite willing to ratify our curiosity seeing it was the first.” (Whitman, 1836). I feel like as a pioneer they had a lot more freedom from the normal roles they would have filled in the states. As far as racial backgrounds go, the differences are very apparent. Black women as slaves had it very rough. They were abused and mistreated sexually often having children from their abuse. They were then separated from their children. This probably did an exorbitant amount of mental damage they had to live with their entire life. White women, although not equal to a man in any shape or form, in my opinion had it better than the enslaved women. The white women were not forced to separate from their family as the black women were. White women earned some resemblance of a wage and could be classified as content with their line of work. Black women were not.
With some of the many differences described, race was one of the largest differences in how these women were treated. How do they feel about their station in life? Are they content?
As mentioned before, the white women often seemed grateful and content for their income, their close family relationships, their jobs, and their limited freedom. But this is quite the opposite for Black women. The black women came across to me as proud they have endured and are choosing to look forward, but not to forget their sufferings. I infer that all women looked to better and brighter things during this time in history, but black women had the biggest differential in this regard. How do they relate to the men and women in their lives?
The white women accounts have an overall tone of love and respect for their family. Black women on the
other hand were often abused by the men in their life. Black women from this time in history bore witness to all of the true hypocrisies of our nation but often had to do it silently.
- Anthony
References:
Jacobs, H. (June 21, 1953). Letter from a Fugitive Slave, The New York Daily Tribune. Documenting the American South. https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/support16.html Murphy T. (2002). Analyzing Letters," History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, Retrieved from: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/letters.htm
Paul, M. (1845) Letters., Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, Vermont, University at Albany. Retrieved
from: https://www.albany.edu/history/history316/MaryPaulLetters.html Pavich, M. (2002). Anna: The Letters of a St. Simons Island Plantation Mistress, 1817 – 1859. Retrieved from: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/excelsior-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3038869&ppg=36
Whitman, N. P. (1836) Letters and Journal of Mrs. Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Mountain Men and the Fur. Retrieved from: https://user.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/nwhitman.html
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