What recourse did most plantation mistresses have on discovering their husbands were having sexual relations with slave women?
A) None really; most pretended they did not know it was happening.
B) Most of these women filed for divorce on grounds of adultery.
C) Mistresses were able to have the alleged lover sold or traded out of the household.
D) Mistresses often filed rape charges against their husbands on behalf of the slave women.
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