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black_dismantling_black_manhood [2026/01/30 15:26] – smiltonblack_dismantling_black_manhood [2026/01/30 16:39] (current) – [Displacement from Familial and Social Roles of Manhood] smilton
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 On top of the extreme physical abuse that African captives aboard slave ships were forced to endure, countless women were also sexually abused by their white European captors. In West Africa, being able to protect one's family and community was a highly valued trait and was the mark of a great man, but aboard slave ships, husbands were completely physically unable to protect their wives from such sexual abuse. This inability to protect and avenge the suffering of their wives caused many West African men to view themselves as dysfunctional as husbands and as men, since, not only were they unable to prove their virility by defending themselves, but they were further unable to defend their wives. (Noah Rutkowski) On top of the extreme physical abuse that African captives aboard slave ships were forced to endure, countless women were also sexually abused by their white European captors. In West Africa, being able to protect one's family and community was a highly valued trait and was the mark of a great man, but aboard slave ships, husbands were completely physically unable to protect their wives from such sexual abuse. This inability to protect and avenge the suffering of their wives caused many West African men to view themselves as dysfunctional as husbands and as men, since, not only were they unable to prove their virility by defending themselves, but they were further unable to defend their wives. (Noah Rutkowski)
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 +With the removal of traditional West African manhood, the typical husband that cares for, provides, and protects their wives is no longer allowed in the Plantation society that the West Africans have been brought to. This is also seen with the Long March and Middle Passage, through the bondage of the men and not allowing them to protect or comfort their wives who are being sexually assaulted. However, on the Plantations the further removal of allowing men to be husbands was also through the sale of the enslaved men, taking them from their wives and placing them on separate plantations across the state or in a different state. -(Sage Milton)
  
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 Plantation life severely limited African men's abilities to father their children, specifically in ways that affirmed their own ideas of manhood. Specifically, in the case of sons, enslaved fathers were unable to impart cultural knowledge and ritually guide their sons on their journey to manhood. They were barred by the limited time they could spend with their family, through both overwork and separation, as well as the explicit prohibition of these practices. Additionally, in the context of their enslavement, fathers had to spend their precious time teaching their children how to survive in a world where white men held all the power rather than teaching their children about what adulthood and specifically manhood meant to them as Africans. (Cameron Spivy) Plantation life severely limited African men's abilities to father their children, specifically in ways that affirmed their own ideas of manhood. Specifically, in the case of sons, enslaved fathers were unable to impart cultural knowledge and ritually guide their sons on their journey to manhood. They were barred by the limited time they could spend with their family, through both overwork and separation, as well as the explicit prohibition of these practices. Additionally, in the context of their enslavement, fathers had to spend their precious time teaching their children how to survive in a world where white men held all the power rather than teaching their children about what adulthood and specifically manhood meant to them as Africans. (Cameron Spivy)
  
 +The notion of fatherhood that West African men had was impossible to maintain in plantation life, specifically for the first generation of enslaved men, whether they came over as adults or children. Fathers had very little time to care or teach their sons their culture or language. Within slavery and the new connection of manhood/ masculinity to race, the fathers were not seen or treated as men, and to some degree these enslaved men were sold to use as a way to create more workers for these plantation owners, not allowing them to be fathers to the children that they were forced to create. Fully removing the cultural aspects of fatherhood from these men. -(Sage Milton)
 ==== Black Manhood in the Media ==== ==== Black Manhood in the Media ====
  
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