The corruption of urban society in America in the 1800s deprived the once virtuous girl of the protection of her family and forced them to rely on their slaveholders and masters who would prey on her its innocence and defenselessness (Mannard, 2014). Women and girls discovered that their bodies were not their own. From an early age, girls were considered sexual objects who existed solely for the pleasure of their master, to act out their most immoral sexual desires. Jacobs (1861) says: “if God has given her beauty, this will prove to be her greatest curse. What arouses admiration in the white woman only accelerates the degradation of the slave” (p. 27). With this, he explains that when a young black slave sees beauty, it quickly becomes her greatest downfall, as white slave owners will persecute her in hopes of having sexual relations. Jacobs notes that female slaves simply did not have the opportunity to be virtuous as their virtue was constantly under attack. As in Jacobs' case, she was told that she was Dr. Flint's property and must submit to his will in all things. Many were raped and forced to bear the children of their white masters and denied marriage to someone they loved, she states: "I once saw a woman almost die giving birth to a child who was almost white" and that, " the master said if she has to have a husband, she can take one