ABSTRACT
The most vivid description of how gender roles were reversed for African Americans during slavery comes to us through a document called Let’s Make Slave.
Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining niggers, the female, and the nigger infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him a fire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining niggers. The next step is to take a bull whip and beat the remaining nigger male to the point of death in front of the female and the infant. Don’t kill him. But put the fear of God in him, for he can be useful for future breeding.
