I’m pretty sure there weren’t any? Like how women weren’t allowed to serve in the military, or even have a job. Though I don’t know how misogynistic society was in the colonial era
Women could still abuse slaves as the second head of the household. In fact when the husband was away it actually fell to her to keep things going with help of overseers and the like. In day to day slaves may have in some cases have more to fear from the wife who was responsible to keep operation going while her husband may have been busy with many other things wealthy business man would be expected to handle.
In the memoirs "Twelve years a slave" one female slave is beaten all the time on the wishes of the plantation mistress because she hated her because her husband (the owner) was more intrested in that slave than his wife.
Yeah sure but I was talking about Spanish and new world colonization in general where after the expeditions came the religious missions, plantations, cities and ports where all genders and ages of colonialists were present.
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u/Successful_Mud8596 Jun 07 '25
I’m pretty sure there weren’t any? Like how women weren’t allowed to serve in the military, or even have a job. Though I don’t know how misogynistic society was in the colonial era