Expediency governed the slave-holders' posture toward female slaves: when it was profitable to exploit them as if they were men, they were regarded, in effect, as genderless, but when they could be exploited, punished and repressed in ways suited only for women, they were locked into their exclusively female roles.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Expediency governed the slave-holders' posture toward female slaves: when it was profitable to exploit them as if they were men, they were regarded, in effect, as genderless, but when they could be exploited, punished and repressed in ways suited only for women, they were locked into their exclusively female roles." in the context of "Angela Davis, (2011), Women, Race, & Class, page: 6, publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: 978-0-307-79849-7, series: Vintage 1st edition, 1981" to mean that wisdom is timeless.