This poem depicts the harsh realities for African female slaves and how they were mentally and physically tortured during Slavery.
Author Biography
Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt
Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt is a Gender and Women’s Studies student with an interest in African and Black female experiences of oppression, racialization, and sexism. The poem encapsulates some of the origins of racialization Black and African women faced and continually face as a direct result of colonialism. Histories of fraught race and gender relations between African women and colonized oppressors, supplement understandings of race relations today.
