BLACK FEMALE SLAVE PROSTITUTION AT ITS WORSE: The Fancy Girl Trade

BLACK FEMALE SLAVE PROSTITUTION AT ITS WORSE: The Fancy Girl Trade

Who is the FANCY GIRL? And what did white men feel was her purpose?

During the time of United States Chattel Slavery of the Negro the concept of the FANCY GIRL was created. 

FANCY GIRLS were LIGHT-SKINNED black women that were specifically bred and sold to be SEX SLAVES to white men. 

FANCY GIRLS were also known as FANCY MAIDS and WHITE SLAVES (because of their light skin)

They were called “FANCY” because they were dressed in fine clothes and makeup at slave auctions to make them  attractive to wealthy buyers.  

FANCY GIRLS costed double or even triple the price of an ordinary field slave.  Owning a FANCY GIRL was a status symbol for wealthy slave owners.  

FANCY GIRLS did not work in the field.   They were kept in the house to be ready for when the slave master was ready to use them.  

In some cases slave masters would rape slave women to purposely have a light-skin child to groom as a FANCY GIRL.  

Some FANCY GIRLS who were sold for sex were as young as THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. 

The FANCY GIRL slave trade not only played into white male desire for exotic sexual experiences, but it was also  an integral part of the RAPE culture in black US slavery.   It played a part in the sick desire and satiating feeling of having complete power over another human being.