Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

“When we listen to what enslaved people had to say about white women and slave mastery, we find that they articulated quite clearly their belief that slave-owning women governed their slaves in the same ways that white men did; sometimes they were more effective at slave management or they used more brutal methods of discipline than their husbands did.”
― Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

“As young girls watched their parents manage the enslaved people around them, they observed different models of slave mastery and through a process of trial and error developed styles of their own. White southern girls grew up alongside the slaves their parents gave them. They cultivated relationships of control and, sometimes, love.4 The promise of slave ownership became an important element of their identities, something that would shape their relationships with their husbands and communities once they reached adulthood.”
― Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South