For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. But a growing body of research is challenging that narrative, documenting the significant role that white women played in the American slave trade.
Between 1856 and 1861, white women engaged in nearly a third of the sales and purchases of enslaved people in New Orleans, which was home to the nation’s largest slave market at the time.
(The New York Times, November 22, 2024)
Yeah, and there’s a direct line between those White women enslavers and the White women who voted for White supremacist Donald Trump instead of supremely qualified Black Kamala to be president…