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Assignment 4

Both Morgan and Davis works, talks about the concept of labor within woman and how overtime they were oppressed with little opportunities given to them. During these time periods, women were not treated with equal rights. In Morgans work, he described that when the English men and women were settled into the New World colonies, they had struggled with the females being too weak to do any work. They needed both White and Black women to do the hard manual labor. The women were forced to do these hard labors no matter what condition they were in, if they were sick or even if they were pregnant, they worked. People would disagree that the women shouldn’t be working if having any of these conditions but they would not back down from the job. In Davis work, it talked about how women had faced many obstacles with oppression but more so Black women then White women.  Black women have worked outside of their homes. Since Black women were considered slaves, the labor they went through took over their lives. Women were viewed no less than men, so they were viewed as profitable labor units. One of the scholars in Davis work said that the slave woman was first a full-time worker for her owner, and then a wife, mother and homemaker. Back then women’s roles were emphasizes as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husband, however, Black women were anomalies. Most Black who were slaves were either a house servant or a nanny. Both of these works talked about the struggles regarding the harsh labor the women back then had to experience. I believed regardless if you were a women, the difficulty of the labor back then was more determined on what race you were if anything. I think Black women had faced more serve labor than a White women faced during this time period. What made these too works connected was that these women would refuse to give up  doing labor because they felt like they needed to do something for themselves, by sustaining a proper and consistent lifestyles.