Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with conventional female roles in the larger American society. And enslaved women's gender, their female bodies, determined the contours of their captivity and their experience of enslavement. Using Nikki Taylors Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio as a window into the lived experiences of some enslaved Black women, compose an essay that examines the following: (1) The importance of exploring / studying the lives and experiences of enslaved Black women (your opinion); (2) The various slave laws that impacted bonded womens lives; (3) Enslaved womens day-to-day plantation experiences; (4)The various ways in which African American women resisted the peculiar institution (slavery); and (5) Your thoughts on enslaved womens use of lethal violence as a way to resist individual bondage and American slavery.