She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite never being an official member of the party. Her research interests are in feminism, Afr Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author.
In effect, Davis argues, enslaved women became “genderless as far as the slaveholders were concerned” (5), and within the system of slavery, “Black women bore the terrible burden of equality in oppression” (19).Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. To slaveowners, Black women were just breeders, not mothers. Even pregnant or nursing women were expected to provide labor at the same levels as others Davis cites one slave narrative describing how women suffering from being unable to breastfeed were “beat with raw hide, so that the blood and milk flew mingled from their breasts” (9). Motherhood, however, did not afford Black women any better treatment because the “deological exaltation of motherhood” that applied to white women “did not extend to slaves” (7). Additionally, after the abolition of the international slave trade, slavemasters relied heavily on enslaved women’s reproductive capacity to replenish their slave labor force. Black women were not seen as feminine or fragile because, like their male counterparts, they were seen as chattel: a source of unpaid labor who were primarily field workers. Although the 19th century saw a redefining of femininity to center around women’s roles as mothers, wives, and housekeepers, these notions of femininity only applied to white women. Davis chronicles the reality of Black women’s lives during slavery and its lasting impact on them long after slavery was abolished.
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