Justification of the massive rape of enslaved african women

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White society used different strategies to justify and tolerate the tangible reality of the massive rape of enslaved African women. Some examples are the imaginary line of Being and Non-Being, the notions of rapeability and unrapeability, the trope of enticement/seduction as well as reclamation theories, based on Hopkins: (3 parag.)

Explain what each of these strategies that perpetuated sexual violence against Blacks women (the line of Non-Being etc.) mean.
What role does the idea of the virtuous "white woman" play in the justification of the massive rape of enslaved African women?
How does the trope of enticement/seduction and reclamation theories make the suffering of enslaved African women invisible?
How do white women benefit but also become victims of the slave economy and the use of rape as a tool of power of white slaveholders?

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