Slave women. Owners and mistresses of plantations in the United States

Abstract

In this article, we analyzed from a gender perspective and with a decolonial feminist epistemic approach; the impact that slavery had on the universe of white women. It reflects on how the models of hierarchization and oppression that supported this regime in the southern United States, were historically constructed. Taking the economic aspect of the slave market, are shown the relationships that were forged between women; mistresses and owners, with those people subjected to the slave trade. A history of slavery with a gender perspective makes possible to see how slaveholding women not only had the opportunity to witness the most brutal aspects of the regime, whether it be in public or private spaces, but also provides information about their active participation and the economic returns that they were able to obtain from it.