Blog Post #4

 In manning mirable's "the black male" she discusses how the black male and white male lived during slavery. i found many intresting things in her reading that i did not know before. from her reading i have come to my own conclusion that one main factor to slavery was that the white man was affraid of the black man. On page 18 she tells you about the three principles the white man thought of they found the black men as phyisically superrior in every way. This also includes there member because they say the black male was a sexual threat to there women because of there member size they felt less of a man so to show they were in charge and ruled there slaves they would rape and sexually assault the black woman. Another thing they would do was castrate the black men and during the war many owners leaned towards there slave for protection once again showing there dependence on the black male showing there physically superior. After reading this i believe that the slavery movement was not only because they were a different color but because the white man was affraid and intimidated by the black men and they would rather control them to assure that they would not rise up.