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In his autobiographical account of his life as a slave, Josiah Henson compares the condition of the male slave to the female slave. He writes about his sympathy for the suffering experienced by women under slavery.
The condition of the male slave is bad enough, Heaven knows; but that of the female, compelled to perform unfit labor, sick, suffering, and bearing the burdens of her own sex unpitied and unaided, as well as the toils which belong to the other, has often oppressed me with a load of sympathy. And sometimes, when I have seen them starved, and miserable, and unable to help themselves, I have helped them, and which my companions had not the wit or the daring to procure.
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