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The shift away from the image of white woman as sinful and sexual to that of white woman as virtuous lady occurred at the same time as mass sexual exploitation of enslaved black women. Just as the rigid sexual morality of victorian England created a society in which the extolling of woman as mother and help meet occurred at the same time as the formation of a mass underworld of prostitution.

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