http://truth-out.org/...
This story has knocked my socks off at every paragraph!
Go to the link and read it!
Meanwhile: Last summer, I read an amazing book-- The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Baily.
http://www.amazon.com/...
I thought I knew a thing or two about History and Slavery, but not even close, this book blew my mind! This book takes you through the amazingly perverted and twisted laws of the Southern United States governing Slaves, and Black Women.
1. Black Women/Slaves were not seen as normal humans. Even though a White Male could get a child on these women in the usual way between heterosexual humans, somehow in their twisted minds, they ignored that obvious and glaring fact, and still relegated these human-women to the realm of farm animal or worse.
What this did was make it legally impossible to categorize a Black Woman or a Slave Woman as pure, or clean, or chaste or even a good mother. Oh sure male owners might see her as a good breeder, but motherhood? That was officially reserved for White Women.
This in turn justified raping these women and forcing them to carry unwanted children for their male owners, but also left the door open to sell those children. According to the reasoning of the day AND THE LAWS, Black Women did not apparently bond with their children like White [read Human] Women do. So taking their babies away did no great harm to the Adult Woman nor her Offspring.
Seriously, as fascinating as the book was, reading that was enough to make me want to vomit.
As a Woman, it shows me how we codified every known crime you could commit against a woman, by denying her the right to determine her own destiny, to preventing her from choosing her own time and season, from forcing sex on her with unwanted partners, to the unbearable trauma of ripping her children away from her and selling them into a lifetime of abuse and servitude.
The Amazing Truthout Story I linked to explores the themes I have listed here, and then deftly applies them to the GOP War on Women--which is both amazing and terrifying.
I would also recommend reading, I Cried When I Got Home by moviemeister76. This Diary entry speaks to these issues as well. Call it Synchronicity.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
As a mother, this just makes me sick to the core of my being. The Stolen Generations, Indian Boarding Schools, Liebensborn, all are abominations to the our humanity and to mothers and fathers everywhere.
How many beatings would you take to keep your children? What desperate acts would you take.
In addition to rapes, forced births, enslavement, we also have forced sterilizations in this country.
Never doubt there is a war on women. It's being ongoing for generations, here and around the world.
I really hope you check out the links I have provided.