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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated January 3, 2024
In her book Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Rutgers University history professor Deborah Gray White writes that the angry Black woman trope is embedded deep in the fabric of U.S. history stemming from chattel slavery. For example, the Sapphire archetype reaches depicts enslaved women as aggressive, masculine, and unpleasant who presented in domineering ways on the field and
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