History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1691 short lesson, about 20 seconds
William J. Anderson
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The idea
William J. Anderson described a Mississippi slaveholder who whipped a woman with a handsaw until he broke it over her body, then raped her and fathered a child.
In practice
Anderson naming it the curse of slavery, concubinage and illegitimate connections, carried on to an alarming extent.
Where people slip
He recorded that enslaved husbands visited wives very seldom while other men cohabited with them.
Your place on the trail
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