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