![]() ![]() Nonetheless she did not escape certain racist prejudices, such as that the enslaved should be more patient, and less violent than their white oppressors. Gouges was one of the few 18 th century authors to defend abolitionism entirely, without any reservation, or any requirement that the enslaved be educated first. She takes Olympe de Gouges as an example. Vergès adds that even feminist authors from that period who looked at slavery directly tended to romantize it, and expected the enslaved to be submissive and patient, while the white heroes or heroines saved them. But in doing so they erased the central elements of slavery-capture, deportation, sale, trafficking, torture, denial of social and family ties, rape, exhaustion, racism, sexism, and death that framed the lives of female slaves appropriating through analogy a condition that was not theirs. ![]() In a recent book on what decolonial and intersectional feminism should look like, Françoise Vergès criticized eighteenth-century women philosophers for appropriating the language of slavery in order to argue for women’s rights:īy drawing an analogy between their situation and that of slaves, European feminists denounced a position of dependence, a status of minors-for-life. ![]()
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