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The Afro-American woman bore a double- edged persecution: one, as a worker, both in the house as well as in the fields; two, as an object of sexual exploitation. She was seen as an over-sexed, immoral, loose woman who was always available for instant sexual gratification, as well as for the procreation of the race, thereby ensuring an unfailing supply of human beings for the ever-increasing needs of capitalist machinery. The poor black woman slave was thrust under by a capitalist society which saw her as an inexpensive commodity, and therefore utilized her to the utmost, without any sense of guilt. The black woman was considered an evil incarnate, robbing white women of their men as well as corrupting a whole way of life. The oppressions and triumphs of Black women are marked in Meridian. There are four major characters: Meridian, her mother Misses Hill, her lover Truman and Lynne. As an apologist Walker writes for the cause of liberation of Black Womanhood.