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"XICA" was set in Brazil

From J.A. Rogers, Sex and Race, Vol. II, Chapter VII

The slave women of Surinam were compelled to go nude above the waist and the young girls absolutely nude, thereby arousing the sexual appetite of the white men, especially new arrivals. Beautiful, shapely black girls in their teens waited on the table in the homes of the rich with not a stitch on, causing no little perturbation to newly-arrived white men. In the morning before the visitor was out of bed "a pretty black Venus wearing only a smile" would bring in his coffee.

Some of the black women arrived in Surinam already with child by white men. Such usually fetched a higher price. Stedman tells of a Dutch ship captain who sold the woman whom he had made pregnant on the voyage for a larger sum than he got for the other women.

[T.S. St. Clair, in A Residence in the West Indies, etc. Vol. 1.], who saw the arrival of a slave ship, tells how lean and starved were the slaves, but how sleek and well-fed were the Negro mistresses of the white men on the ship. He says "On reaching the cabins, which belonged to the cabin and mate, I found five or six young girls, as naked as they were born , who formed the seraglios of these two sultans and were kept fat and in good condition."

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