A bed wench tried to ruin my career

[Blackout]

I’m cool with black feminists

It’s female c00ns who are the ones who fukk shyt up for black progress

 

[The Fade]

Read the book Door of No Return.. they had wenches on the slavecoast who were in consensual relationships with them and received a monthly stipend while they were with them and inheritance after the mans death.

A lot of these white dudes working in the castles on the slave coast ran away from their real wives to live with their wenches

 

[Caribbean lover]

what exactly were you and the feminist arguing about?

 

[satam55]

THE term bedwench is offensive to the ancestors. A lot of those “bedwenches” were repeatedly raped and beaten to be broken into their roles.

They didn’t wake up being subservient and submissive to white slave masters. They were abused until they didn’t refuse.

21st century blacks are arguably the weakest out of every generation of blacks that have walked the community in the 400+ years of our existence. The people who fought the real fight were slaves, people during the civil rights era and everywhere in between those two time periods.

We are weak as shyt in comparison to those folks. Couldn’t even imagine a black person from a previous century making light of such a serious issue. Labeling every black man and woman who doesn’t 100% cosign your misguided beliefs a bed buck or a bed wench.

Everything is a joke to you nikkas.

Same with the term “bedbuck”, those brothas were repeatedly raped in front of other slaves by their slave masters and here everyone is using these terms as Jokes, or comedic punchlines.

Who gives AF?! If we use that logic for why we shouldn't use term "Bedwench" you open a can of worms because by your logic we shouldn't use other terms like the n-word, c00n, & etc. terms we reguarly use that have slavery or historical racial contexts either.

 

[Jone2three45]

No them hoes wasnt raped most of the time. Read a book called daughters of the trade.

Why do you think they call black women the mother of all civilizations because they always let strange men and cacs fukk them and have their babies

You dont know about the secret relationship between black women and white men in america

The shyt goes so deep to the point that white men left land to their black mistresses/slaves instead of their white wives breh

Black women have always gave up that p*ssy breh

Black p*ssy literally nurtured our future slavemasters to health and prosperity bu enslaving us. They did it willingly before we even got to America. At a time when black kings were still more powerful than the would be white slave master.


Pernille Ipsen. Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xviii + 269 pp. Maps. Notes. Notes on Sources. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0812246735.
Pernille Ipsen’s Daughters of the Trade is a rare study of marriage practices and experiences at the intersection of two oft-neglected spaces: the Danish Atlantic and Ga-speaking communities on the Gold Coast of West Africa. As Ipsen ably demonstrates, there is much to be learned from Dano–Ga society that can help us more broadly conceptualize the Atlantic and those who made their lives at its edges and across its waters.

Ipsen’s study focuses on casssare(interracial) marriages in the region surrounding the Danish fort at Christiansborg, within the confines of the Osu district in modern-day Accra. Her narrative extends from the beginning of the eighteenth century to 1850, when the Danes officially sold their fort and possessions to the British government. Her sources are government [End Page 257] and church records, private letters, and official correspondence, from which she produces a discursive and cultural history of attitudes toward cassare marriages and the experiences of those who were its participants or off-spring. Ipsen demonstrates how marriages in the early period of her study were vital to the survival and prosperity of Danish merchants and soldiers, and later to the commercial success of the Danish slave trade in an era when African rulers were much more powerful than their European partners. Many of the Danes who were married to Ga women learned to live within the rules and with the comforts of their wives’ compounds and lifestyles. However, by the late eighteenth century, consuming and displaying European culture and material became a way for women in cassare marriages and their children to claim protection and advantages of connection to the Danish church and fort. In making this shift, they managed to claim a truly intermediary and hybrid position of value to both Ga and Danish communities on the coast. Fifty years later, however, incipient colonialism brought such intermediary positions into question. While both the wives and children of Danes in the Osu region could occasionally still make claims on inheritance and schooling, they faced new challenges in seeking employment and association with the administration. As Ipsen demonstrates through both written works and art, the emergence of racialism played a large role in this transformation, bringing hybridity under attack even as Dano–Ga families were claiming a particular and distinct identity through their household goods and cultural practices.

Daughters of the Trade is structured chronologically, with consecutive chapters jumping forward twenty to fifty years but also moving occasionally from Christiansborg and Osu to Copenhagen and, briefly, the Danish Caribbean. Ipsen’s interpretation is clearly underpinned by cultural and literary studies theory with a gender studies inflection, although neither theory nor methodology is thoroughly elucidated in the introduction. Throughout, the cassare marriage remains at the center of her interpretive frame, changing over time but nevertheless consistently demonstrating several core features. In general, Ga women acculturated their husbands to their society more than they themselves became Danish. These women served their husbands as translators, cultural ambassadors, and trading partners. They also were frequently investors in their businesses and were often beneficiaries of their estates. The children of those marriages, in general, belonged to their mother’s extended families, and recognition by their fathers varied.

By exploring cassare marriages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Ipsen brings to light the stories of numerous fascinating African women, beginning with Koko Osu, the daughter of the caboceer of Osu who was married to the future governor of Danish Christiansborg in the early 1700s, and concluding with Severine Brock, the Dano–Ga woman who married the last governor of the fort in 1842. Yet she has far more to say about the worldview and attitudes of Danish men like Ludewig Romer and Chaplain Elias Svane. It is not really fair to chide Ipsen for this imbalance, [End Page 258] as the sources are clearly weighted in the direction of the males who

Yep. Black women have always been saving “this” world.

 

[Zpektro]

Coli SIMPs heartbroken lol.

 

[Rice'N Beckford]

Thread somehow turned into a shyt on bw thread per usual intead of on the wench hate

some sisters have been made so inscure and goaless their entire lives that this trendy feminism wave has caught em up

 

[Elle Driver]

There’s an old saying: No one has more freedom in this country then white men and black women. It’s so fukking true but these bytchasses in thecoli don’t want to hear that and the real history between them.

 

[tater]

There are also countless stories about women who were raped against their will. Also men who sold out rebellions, and I would venture to say it was mostly black men who allowed Africans to be enslaved from Africa.

Women were raped, beaten and worked like dogs, they saw an out and took it. Their children now had a future that wasn’t slavery.

Y’all are sad, sick, little people.

 

[EBK String]

There are also countless stories about women who were raped against their will. Also men who sold out rebellions, and I would venture to say it was mostly black men who allowed Africans to be enslaved from Africa.

Women were raped, beaten and worked like dogs, they saw an out and took it. Their children now had a future that wasn’t slavery.

Y’all are sad, sick, little people.

that's the same mentality bed wenches have now. I can have light skin lil babies with a white daddy who won't feel the wrath of white supremacy.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Cool but miss me with that Top Tier Post Graduate School

Not with that grammar

 

[avocadotaco]

 

[Brolic Scholar]

You rolled the dice and got lucky OP. In the future avoid showing your co-orkers, colleagues or classmates up. Winning a battle and losing the war isn't worth the ego boost or satisfaction of shytting on people you will have to deal with on the regular.

 

[Supper]

There are also countless stories about women who were raped against their will. Also men who sold out rebellions, and I would venture to say it was mostly black men who allowed Africans to be enslaved from Africa.

Women were raped, beaten and worked like dogs, they saw an out and took it. Their children now had a future that wasn’t slavery.

Y’all are sad, sick, little people.

Sure, and I'd even go so far as say that all sex that happened between free white men and enslaved black women could be considered "rape" as a slave with all of their human rights stripped can not consent to sex, especially when that person was born & raised in those conditions and knows no other lifestyle. In some cases, at it's most mild form it was coercive sexual assault, while in other cases, such as that of a certain french slave overseer in louisiana, it involved the most brutal form of repeated sexual/physical torture you could possibly inflict on another person. BUT, black male slaves were routinely sodomized and castrated, both as punishment and as conditions for being able to work in the house as an alternative to the back breaking "field work" most male slaves were made to do. Only eunuch black males were seen as fit to work around the house where white females would be present. Castration for male slaves was even codified into LAW in many states as punishment for repeat runaways, and the punishments for male slaves running away was always a level more severe than the punishments for females doing it, such that black female slaves were most often left unshackled while punished while the males slaves were most often shackled.

"The 1740 slave code in South Carolina made it legal to kill a slave who was away from the house or plantation, even if that person did not resist. Georgias code came 15 years later and actually encouraged the killing of runaways, offering a reward twice as much for a dead male slave than a captured live female."
African Americans in the Revolution

And even still the vast majority of runaway slaves were black men, which attest to the conditions for enslaved black men being worse than that of enslaved black women, as they had much higher death rates, being physically punished, and much lower rates of being freed.

Men sold or attempted to sell out rebellions, but so did women as in the case of the slave women in Madison Washington's revolt on the slave ship. But ALL of the slave revolts were started by black men, at least in the US. None were started by black women, as they had the privilege of seeking many other options for freedom or better treatment that just weren't available to black men. And on top of that most 'black' slave owners were black women and their mulatto children. Fully black males were rarely apart of that equation. So, yes, black women did collaborate with white men to contribute to the further enslavement of our people in a way that black men did not.

My overall point is to say that enslaved black men were treated worse and fought harder against slavery than enslaved black women, due to not being able to offer sex & reproduction as a bargaining chip to white men as black women could and still can or benevolent sexist notions of female fragility working in their favor to avoid harsh treatment inflicted on black men throughout history. This dynamic between black women and hegemonic white men still plays out to this day. I'm not outright denying the suffering that black women went through or still go through, just pointing out that black men had and still have a level worse than them under this white MALE supremacist society.

The "black women exceptionally loyal to black men/black race" narrative has to go, as it's just not an accurate representation of black women's relationship to black men historically or currently. Which is not to say that black women are exceptionally treacherous as compared to other races of women, but just viewing them realistically as people who don't place great value to in-group/tribal politics if it doesn't directly benefit them as most women don't

 

[Ish Gibor]

Do I care to read a book written by someone who wasn’t there? You wanna disrespect black people that bad?

Call it what you want, those “bedwenches” we’re still stronger and endured more than you or any of us do on a daily basis.

The book is based on actual data and accounts. It's anthropological, not some opinion.