From their documented arrival in the colonial United States, Black women have been systemically forced to exist as mules for a society dependent on their labor and human capital for a developing nation funded by a plantation-centered economy. Likewise, the nation's earliest higher education institutions were founded within the confines of the U.S. plantation system and adapted plantation politics, slave trading, and slaveholding to accommodate their developing needs. Therefore, the first Black women to navigate U.S. higher education systems were chattel slaves, and their bodies bolstered the academy at the expense of their dignity, health, and livelihood. At present, Black women outpace many other minoritized demographic groups in the percentage of college enrollment, degree attainment, achievement of faculty rank, and employment in higher education executive leadership positions. Despite these achievements, Black women have been professionally relegated to assume the role of the Black Mammy, the perpetual burden bearers and mess managers for institutions founded in White supremacy and patriarchy. This interpretive phenomenological study explores the experiences of Black women higher education professionals and was guided by 2 central questions: (a) What are the experiences of Black women higher education full-time employees as it pertains to their embodiment of the Black Mammy Archetype within professional journeys?; and (b) How do Black women higher education full-time employees define and exercise agency within Intersectionality racialized and gendered professional environments? Analysis of the findings produced a 5-phase "Cycle of Re-Indenturing" that characterizes the pathology behind the perpetual subjugation of Black women throughout systems of power in the United States. Implications for this study provide multiple recommendations for "Burning Down Massa's Kitchen" or destabilizing the White supremacy and patriarchy that permeates higher education systems and binds Black women to the Black Mammy Archetype. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]