What was the cult of domesticity

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Assignment:

For this discussion board post, draw on Eric Foner's as well as Deborah Gray White's chapter 1 to discuss ideas about gender and freedom during the antebellum era of slavery.

Compare and contrast the expected gender roles for white women and Black enslaved women. What was the "cult of domesticity?" Who did it apply to and who did it not? What were the mythical Jezebel and the Mammy figures? How did such myths come to be and why were they necessary? Who benefitted from these myths about Black enslaved women? How did these myths harm both Black and white women?

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