📌 A Part of Black History We Are Rarely Taught

📌 A Part of Black History We Are Rarely Taught

They never told us that there were Jeffrey Epsteins during slavery. Yes child sexual abuse existed during slavery, and it w

as systemic, protected, and widespread.

During American slavery, Black children girls and boys were not protected by law. Enslavers, overseers, and men in power could sexually abuse enslaved children without punishment, because enslaved people were legally considered property, not human beings.

This included:

• rape of young girls

• sexual assault of boys

• forced “breeding” once girls reached puberty

• repeated abuse treated as a property right

If a child was born from this abuse, the law said the child belonged to the enslaver, not the mother meaning sexual violence increased wealth instead of being punished.

There were no consequences:

– Enslaved children could not testify

– Rape of a slave was not a crime

– Victims had no legal protection

– Abusers were shielded by the system

This is documented in:

• slave narratives

• plantation records

• court rulings

• personal letters

• historical census and DNA records

Harriet Jacobs wrote openly about being sexually targeted as a teenager. Her story is not rare  it is representative.

This trauma didn’t disappear when slavery ended.

It carried forward into:

• silence

• shame

• broken family structures

• generational trauma

This history matters because you cannot heal what you are never allowed to name.

Slavery was not just forced labor.

It was state-sanctioned violence, including sexual violence against children.

This is Black history.

It deserves truth not silence.

We could not stop the Jeffrey Epsteins and the sick powerful men in the past but we can today.