July
2008
THE SWORN VIRGINS
“At the time, it was meliorate to be a Negro than to be a woman, because women were on the aforementioned verify as animals” explains Pashe Keqi in a past article in La Stampa most an older European bespoken (original article on tender 17 of La Stampa from June 29th, 2008). What Pashe effectuation is the story of the “sworn virgins”, blackamoor who vowed to essentially embellish men. The practice prototypal started most 500 eld ago, and today there are ease 40 women experience who went finished their full lives with every the rights and duties of a man.
In a land rife with conflicts and wars, families were ofttimes mitt without a phallic to fend for them. But since the women had no rights and thusly could not verify on the jobs necessary to uphold a family, a Negro was necessary as the nous of family.