...have them severely flogged; and I am sorry it is a fact, that the villains to whom those defenseless creatures are sent, not only flog them as they are...such demons! It always appears strange to me that anyone who was not born a slaveholder, and steeped to the very core in the demoralizing atmosphere...

...influence of slavery. Blacks emphasized further black women's long-standing powerlessness before white men. "Oh, if there is any one thing under the wide canopy...stir a man's soul, and to make his very blood boil," wrote William Craft in his slave narrative, "it is the thought of his dear wife, his unprotected sister,...

...must have something; — things don't look so dreadful, when you take that." (Stowe 1982, 438)61 58. "For instance, it is a common practice in the slave...save themselves from falling a prey to such demons!" (Craft 1860, 8). Craft's mixed-race status, which kept him from falsifying the racists' claim that...

...to stir a man's soul, and to make his very blood boil," wrote William Craft in his slave narrative, "it is the thought of his dear wife, his unprotected...struggling to save themselves from falling a prey to such demons!"34 This anger, prevalent in the writing of black men, interprets attacks on the bodies of black...

...flog them as they are ordered, but frequently compel them to submit to the greatest indignity. Oh! lf there is any one thing under the wide canopy of heaven,...save themselves from falling a prey to such demons!' (Craft 1 860, p. 8). Craft's role as abolitionist speaker is discussed in Quarles (1954); his role...

...society, to be the fathers of children by their slaves, whom they can and do sell with impunity. . . . Oh! If there is any one thing under the wide canopy...save themselves from falling a prey to such demons!"" As literary critic Frances Foster has pointed out, Craft's comment about the indignities inflicted...

...society, to be the fathers of children by their slaves, whom they can and do sell with impunity. . . . Oh! If there is any one thing under the wide canopy...struggling to save themselves from falling a prey to such demons!"22 As literary critic Frances Foster has pointed out, Craft's comment about the indignities...

...to his ability and will to enact the role of protector that was central to masculinity norms. "Ohl If there is any one thing under the wide canopy of...struggling to save themselves from falling a prey to such demons."6 Craft's emphasis on womanly virtue places Ellen, famous for her disguise as a white male,...

...regarding slavery's emasculation, its rendering of enslaved men powerless to protect female dependents: "if there is any one thing under the wide canopy of...daughters, struggling to save themselves from falling prey to such demons" (7). There is no use in his seeing the sister, for his vision (as a black man)...