Question for Jeff Pasley's section, 11/30/06
Most of you will be writing the papers this week, so consider Kris's questions on Celia and answer the following: Based on what you have read, what criticisms of slavery would northern devotees of the "cult of domesticity" be likely to make, even beyond the basic injustice of holding human beings as property?
posted by Jeff Pasley at 2:54 AM
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According to the cult of domesticity, women should be pious, pure, submissive and domestic. While an enslaved woman could be considered submissive, it would be hard to classify her as pure, especially given how many African American slave women were raped. A slave could also hardly be expected to be domestic. Having time to care for her husband and children would be hard given her other responsibilities.
Many northeners who also agreed with the cult of domesticity would not only disagree with slavery for basic reasons, but would strongly disagree with the view of women and their role on society. In celia female salves are abused and raped and treated like animals. According to the "Cult" women were cheif care givers and the controllers of man's inner rebellion. The two are almost opposites
The northern devotees of the "cult of deomesticity" would not be able to agree with slavery. For their beliefs was that women were domestic, pure, and were treated with respect. The slaves on the other hand were completely opposite. They were treated like animals, being abused and raped. And for the "cult" to be ok with slavery would be out of the question since the slaves were treated against their beliefs.
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