But, since many people recognized African American enslaved people as human beings, they had to be framed as fundamentally different in other ways to justify enslavement. The notion that Black people are “naturally” more sexual and that Black women were therefore “unrapable” (Hill Collins 2004) served this purpose. Black men were framed as hypersexual “Bucks” uninterested in monogamy and family, a false idea which justified splitting up enslaved families and using Black men to impregnate Black women.