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Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. W.E.B. Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women–with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family–the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them.
Aberjhani, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois