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I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered over with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress. I do not know that her master ever whipped her, but I have often been an eye witness of the revolting and brutal inflictions by Mrs. Hamilton; and what lends a deeper shade to this woman's conduct, is the fact, that, almost in the very moments of her shocking outrages of humanity and decency, she would charm you by the sweetness of her voice and her seeming piety." (149) Slavery thus causes, what Douglass states are "THE BANEFUL EFFECTS OF SLAVEHOLDING ON MY DEAR AND GOOD MISTRESS," upon women in particular. Women are suggestible and such a bad institution as slavery corrupts even good White females as well as harms the tender bodies of Black females -- again a very persuasive appeal to a White Northern audience to the abolitionist cause.

But although persuasive in its day, Douglass' argument is still predicated upon natural divisions between the natures and bodies of the sexes.

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All of his examples suggest that while the system of slavery oppresses its female victims, it does so in a way particularly damaging to the maternal bodies and instincts of tender Black women, who must act like men, walking alone at night to see their children, because of slaveholder's cruelty and insensitivity, or of White women who become cruel because of the liberal nature of the institution. There are no alternative role models for women, but merely a role model of motherhood for both Black and White women Douglass idealizes. While Douglass does show a plurality of positive and negative White and Black responses to slavery, both of Black female strength for children and White sensitivity and insensitivity, he does not upset the ideals of what 'real women' ought to be like -- mothers and Christian instructors with tender hearts.

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