The history of sexual violence in slavery informs today’s demonizing societal perceptions of Black women’s sexuality. Despite this, Black women’s literature often denounces those depictions through characters who confront historical trauma by exercising procreative and/or sexual agency. Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Gayl Jones’ Corregidora (1975) are powerful works that conceptualize healing through these strategies. Using historical research and trauma studies, I argue that these texts delineate the intersection of race and gender in trauma and encourage new ways of healing.