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.@sejr_historian is discussing how white women, who were up to 40% of slave owners, received enslaved people as gifts (weddings, birthdays, holidays, etc.) & were in some ways more invested in the promise of the institution than white men. #AntiracistBookFest 
.@sejr_historian then powerfully argues that for these white women “slave ownership became a pathway to freedom” as in their economic power became intimately tied to the bodies of enslaved people.
And she further notes that white women would receive enslaved peoples as gifts and white men would receive land. So, marriages would be labor + land in ways that encouraged a deep investment in white supremacy and the institution of slavery.
