Instead of looking at the American white mistresses as delicate upper-class women who are themselves victims of the white male patriarchy, this paper, instead, portrays them as violent perpetrators who engaged in subjugating and dehumanising the black subject.ĭespite the overriding narrative voice of the white mistress, I argue that the novel does not stop short at portraying Sarah as a victim of slavery. This work highlights the subversive aspect of Property in unsettling the conventional historical accounts which neglected white women’s active involvement in the institution of slavery in the Antebellum South. Taking as its main corpus Valerie Martin’s neo-slave narrative, Property, this paper portrays a violent relationship based on racial domination between a white mistress, Manon Gaudet, and her black slave woman, Sarah.
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