And disobedience is punishable by 25 lashes per offense. The white man was “struck with my comeliness,” itanoko says, which “made him violate, what is most sacred among men.’” Male victims of sex trafficking are telling their stories
Sexual Exploitation of the Enslaved - Encyclopedia Virginia
By speaking out they hope to destroy the myth that boys are not victims of the sex trade.
Male slave owners used sexual assault to dominate, dehumanize, and emasculate male slaves in american antebellum south
The oppression and violence that characterized the institution of chattel slavery are easily accessible, as well as the sexual assault often inflicted on female slaves. There is growing evidence that in new england and across the united states there are likely thousands of male victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, far more than previously understood. In joseph lavallée’s novel, the negro equalled by few europeans, an enslaved african man named itanoko describes being raped by a white slaver named urban
