Part one of term paper
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 at slave auctions were all forms of sexual tensions found on nineteenth-century A ...

Part two of term paper
... sex with them. If sex did not include consent, then it included force, or rape. There were no laws present in America at this time protecting female slaves against the sexual advances of their masters.1 Slave owners then had the opportunity to take advantage of their slaves without having to worry of prosecution. Without laws that would allow these enslaved 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, ...