# Violence against enslaved females  
It is important to emphasize the sexual aspect of enslaved labour and the sexual violence to which females and children were exposed. Despite Claude Meillassoux's argument that if 'there was no a priori preference for one sex over the other, it was because slaves were sought as asexual agents of work' (Meillassoux, 1997, p. 58), it must be highlighted that absolute control over the enslaved body, and particularly the enslaved female body, was a constant. In Muslim societies,