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| 9d734e6 | Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them. | slavery african-american-women african-families crimes-against-humanity day-to-end-racism forced-labor heinous-crimes history-of-africans history-of-slavery human-bondage international-women-s-day postered-poetics-by-aberjhani quotation-poster-art sex-trafficking slave-holders web-dubois women-and-human-trafficking women-around-the-world women-s-history-month w-e-b-du-bois human-trafficking women-in-history slavery-in-the-united-states physical-abuse wisdom-quotes forgiveness psychological-trauma | Aberjhani |