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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