What in the name of everything does homosexuality and sexual assault have to do with each other? Forrealdoh!!! Professor Marable laboured all of those years and gave his life for a work that cannot even be read by those who hold Malcolm in highest regard. Please, please, please, "envy not the oppressor nor take upon you any of his ways." This crap started when that nut implied Lincoln was fooling with Herndon. Then, a historian I admire to the utmost, implied that Sojourner Truth was getting it on in orgies because she had a home within a free-love colony. Come on! Give us some threads we can use! There is absolutely posiively no way to document what two men were doing on top of some mountain in Jamaica in the 16th century!!
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Tracy Flemming <cafenegritude@gmail.com> wrote:
http://wanderingcaravan-bronzebuckaroo.blogspot.com/2011/04/against-his-will.html
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Against His Will
During the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning in Brazil and then in
the Caribbean and the United States, it is estimated that an uncertain
number of male African slaves did engaged in same-sex activity within
the slave population. The reasons why are diverse. A shortage of
women and being from a particular environment not prejudiced against
it for one reason or another. At the same time, enslaved African
men---- and women---- could be subjected to sexual violence from a
slaveholder.
Most assaults are undocumented or went unreported. The actual number
inflicted unwillingly on men both straight and among those naturally
inclined toward same-sex affections may never be fully known but only
estimated. Confessed to Inquisition authorities in the the early
1590s, the owner of a sugar plantation in Brazil said he violated two
male slaves and one "free" black servant.
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