The simile of animal-like reproductive units
The simile is used in the book to indicate how the Europeans view indigenous women. According to the Europeans, the indigenous women are meant to be laborers and producing more slaves. They compare indigenous women's reproduction capability to animals. For instance, the author states:
"The ambivalence is conveyed in Munster's narration of Columbus's voyage, where he situated women as intermediaries between the intrusive between the intrusive and indigenous people as animal-like reproductive units."
The simile: The earth is shaped like a breast with the Indies composing the nipple
The simile is used in the book to indicate how the Europeans viewed indigenous women. According to the Europeans, the indigenous women were meant to be laborers and producing more slaves. They compared indigenous women's reproduction capability to animals. For instance, the author states: "The ambivalence is conveyed in Munster's narration of Columbus's voyage, where he situated women as intermediaries between the intrusive between the intrusive and indigenous people as animal-like reproductive units."
The metaphor : "The Indigenous Woman"
The author postulates that writers such as Walter Raleigh and Edward Long metaphorically use the term 'indigenous woman' to mark symbiotic boundaries between the European nationals and the black women simply to blot their white supremacy. According to European writers, they argue that their women are more beautiful and more superior to the black woman just to justify their intentions of using blacks as laboring beasts.
Theft of bodies
The author indicates the justification by the Europeans to use Africans as slaves metaphorically using the phrase 'Theft of Bodies'. The whites considered the black women as incomplete human beings despite having human bodies. Therefore, they articulate them as inferior beings whose primary objective is to serve and work for the white man as a slave.
Ligon's beautiful Negro woman was as important as her 'six-legged' counterpart
Despite the Europeans doing everything possible to paint the black woman as less superior to the white woman, the narrator notes that Ligon's non-white wife is comparable to the African woman in all aspects except the color. Therefore, the author uses this simile to help the reader understand that the racist ideology against the blacks is an articulation of the Europeans to make the Africans look inferior in all aspects.
