Blog Post # 4

White society used African male as slave. The reason White people use them as a slave because they were strong, hard worker, and uneducated. Black male were known as lastly sexual potency to the white women (Marable 18). Many white women were interested in their male slaves. Like Marable says in the article “The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes” that “ Another dilemma, seldom discussed publicly, was the historical fact that some white women of social classes were not reluctant to request the sexual favors of their male slave”(18). When the white male saw that their woman’s are interested on black male they felt sexually inferior. It questions their man hood. Because of these things white male started to take revenge by routing rape sexually abuse the black women. The white male felt that the black male was a better protector then themselves. So they castrate the black males. All though the white male felt that the black male was uneducated, but they are the one contributed to agriculture, they were good at it. This article mentions that “Africans were the first to cultivate wheat on the continent; they showed their illiterate masters how to grow indigo, rice, and cotton. Their extensive knowledge of herbs and roots provided colonists with medicines and preservatives for food supplies” (Marable 17). In the time of war black slaves volunteered to join the continental army. So the white male used black males to protect themselves and their property.

Work cited:
Marable, Manning. “The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes”. Men`s Lives.5TH ed. Ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.17-23. Print.