How did white women treat the black slaves before the civil war?
For the most part they treated the slaves the same as the men did. Some of the women were probably worse than the men to the women because they knew their white husbands were off banging the female slaves producing little mixed children. They also may have been more cruel to them because women didn’t have many rights themselves and history has shown us that if there is someone “below” us in stature we will find a way to treat them poorly just to make ourselves feel better about our own poor standing. The flip side is that there were some women who were more caring and nurturing than most. These are the women you will hear the least about in history during the civil war. These are the women who tended to the wounds of the slaves, snuck food to the slaves when their husbands were starving them and helped deliver the babies of the female slaves. There are some of these women out there but history would rather have the world believe that everyone was a cruel slave owner during this time an
