In New Orleans, light-skinned female slaves were sold to plantation owners for the expressed purpose of sexual exploitation. "Fancy girls" were often children and teenagers who were sexually and physically abused by slave traders prior to being sold. The South was a “rape culture” where sexual violence against slave women was normalized and trivialized.
Slave traders called a young, light-skinned, female slave a “fancy girl”.
The fancy girl trade was very lucrative.
A slave trading firm, like Franklin & Armfield, could easily make a 100% profit by auctioning a “fancy girl” in New Orleans.
Franklin & Armfield’s goal was to supply “fancy girls” to its customers in the Deep South for the explicit purpose of prostitution and concubinage.
The firm purchased young, light skinned women for cash in Virginia and Maryland.
Once in the firm’s custody, these young female slaves were routinely raped by the firm’s staff.
Fancy girls were the most expensive category of female slave at slave auctions in New Orleans.
Fancy girls sold for four to five times what a female field laborer would sell for at auction.
Fancy girls on occasion could sell for as much or more than a prime male field laborer.
At slave auctions, fancy girls were well dressed and often wore jewelry.
See The Disturbing Truth - Human Beings Were Bred For Profit.
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See Children placed in "slave jails", raped, and sold into prostitution in pre-Civil War South.
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See SEX TRAFFICKING OF LIGHT-SKINNED SLAVE WOMEN IN THE PRE-CIVIL WAR SOUTH
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