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In his autobiography, Malcolm X says: "During slavery ... it was a rare one of our black grandmothers, our great-grandmothers and our great-great-grandmothers who escaped the white rapist slavemaster ..." Is this true? How widespread was this white male-on-black female rape in the Antebellum South? NSFW

by /u/Smash_all_States in /r/AskHistorians

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