>>7874253Willie Lynch details in the making of a slave that a slave's mindset is self-perpetuating, taught by parents to children, and begins with destroying the male image of a family/people. "Male image" means their conception of a father/masculine figure to protect and lead them.
Men lead households and by displacing a father's authority, breaking and domesticating him into a position of servitude, rulers increase the gulf between themselves and their subjects.
A step along the way in this transition was women's suffrage. The earliest colonists to north american had the concept of voting counting households. By counting wives separately from the husbands the state
1) does not recognize a husband's authority over his wife
2) affirms ownership of both the husband and wife