Enpax

5y

“Something you didn’t want to do in the first place” also I wasn’t saying that gay rape never happened, I was saying that the society at the time wouldn’t have allowed regular and public gay rape to be an acceptable thing

Mulder

5y

Yes.

Nat Turner was skinned, eaten, boiled into grease and his skin was made into purses. This is said in multiple slave narratives + the person who skinned him was so proud of it he wrote about it in his own obituary.

And it was called "Nat's Grease". Recently they might have found his skull, so his descendants might be able to put him to rest in a decent place but they've never found his body because of what they did with it.

The Delectable Negro goes into this.

bloom

5y

Well, i dont feel Society at the time would have taken notice because it was happening at the slave owners premises and not on a public stage

Mulder

5y

If you really want an idea of what was going on during slavery in the Americas (not just the U.S.) I would suggest looking into slave narratives.

Finding out they turned Nat Turners dead body into grease and ate him was deeply disturbing.

Enpax

5y

That’s actually not true, their Christian homophobia wouldn’t let them. Doesn’t need to be either because horsewhips and regular rape of black women was already bad enough on their own

Nuja

5y

Christian homophobia is a public front. Doesnt change what happens behind closed doors.

GLITZZZ

5y

Can you link to some of the narratives?

Enpax

5y

Yeah but buck breaking wouldn’t be behind closed doors if it was a thing

Nuja

5y

fair point, especially after futher looking into this you are absolutely correct. Wasn't saying you were wrong in the first place, but was playing devils advocate.

Enpax

5y

Yeah I feel you, but it’s weird that people have to make up fantastical claims about slavery (and history in general) when the truth is actually just as bad, just in different ways

Drogon

5y

sadly yes, and the slave owner used to rape the most masculine male infront of all the slaves to assert their dominanace and insert a faith of even more hopelessness into the slaves.

it's painfully depressing that people went through this.

Enpax

5y

Yeah I feel you, but it’s weird that people have to make up fantastical claims about slavery (and history in general) when the truth is actually just as bad, just in different ways

Mulder

5y

There's thousands collected here to read for free: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/narratives-slavery/file.html

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