But take a trip to the National Museum of Iceland, and you might find a display there with an interesting statistic. Given the genetics of Iceland and the nature of the people who settled it, Both archaeologists and scientists now coming around to the firm belief that a large percentage of the first women on Iceland were taken there as slaves. After analyzing the DNA of modern Icelanders, scientists have been able to come up with a fairly accurate idea of what the founding population of the country looked like. But based on the mitochondrial DNA, which is only passed down in the female line, we know that over half of the female settlers were Celtic , meaning they came from Ireland, Scotland, and the northwestern islands of Britain. So essentially, the founders of Iceland were a strange combination of Norse men and Celtic women.

Her new black Master said he wanted Stephanie to meet some of his friends. Any questions? I have had it quite forcefully pointed out to me that black people are not a fetish. I apologize for any insult my ignorance and immaturity has caused. Multiple people have messaged this blog asking me to continue posting.

Many first person accounts Harriet A Jacobs and other data available, underscore the rampant sexual exploitation of African women slaves. Slave men, for their part, were rendered powerless to challenge or intervene, as to do so would mean sure death or sale to distant plantations. However, in quite a few documented cases, enslaved black women worked as devoted loyal servants, as mammies and surrogate mothers for white children demonstrating the absence of oppression and bonds of affection that actually united the two races. They understood that submissiveness was a way to avoid punishment, but the true behavior model emulated was the one they witnessed in private. The family was an important survival mechanism, for no matter how often the family was broken, it enabled the slave to survive on the plantation without becoming totally submissive to or dependent on the master.