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Sex is part of human nature. It always has been; it always will be. When people think of sex, normally it is as a pleasure. Unfortunately, for slaves in antebellum America, this was not always the case. Rape, slave breeding, married slave couples being split up a ....

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.... women to resist, there is a presumption then that they were always willing to oblige to their master's requests for sex.2 This, of course, is not true. Not all slave women were so compelled to give into their owner's demands. For some slaves the only way they could resist the advances of an oncoming sexual predator was through resistance. Such an example is Jermain Loguen's mother. When attacked, "she picked up a stick and dealt her would- be rapist a blow that sent him staggering. She stood her ground even as he rebounded with a knife, and finally she knocked him out cold."3 The punishment for such aggressive actions though often involve ....