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Overall suicide rates of black slaves in the United States are believed to have been comparatively low, in part due to cultural beliefs common to both Africa and African-American communities. [3] Africa has the lowest suicide rate of any continent, and the suicide rate of African-descended Americans is a fraction of that of European-descended ...
Slave breeding was the attempt by a slave-owner to influence the reproduction of his slaves for profit. [48] It included forced sexual relations between male and female slaves, encouraging slave pregnancies, sexual relations between master and slave to produce slave children and favoring female slaves who had many children.
For a black American who lived during the era of U.S. slavery, no rights were guaranteed, whether they were personally enslaved or not. [11] In the United States a slave's life expectancy was 21 to 22 years, and a black child through the age of 1 to 14 had twice the risk of dying of a white child of the same age. [12]
American slaves were commonly chained and restrained by various means. In 1817 Jesse Torrey described the restraints used on one man who had been indentured but was being sold south as a slave for life : "[He] was a mulatto man, about 21 years of age, I found him thoroughly secured in irons.
William Pitman (died 1775) was an American slave owner who was executed for murdering one of his own slaves. His case was one of several instances in which whites were executed for murdering black slaves in the Americas. In 1775, Pittman, a man in his late 40s or early 50s, was charged with murdering one of his slaves during a drunken rage.
The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory, United States.In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces on May 21, and the telegraphed news of the severe attack on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—responded violently.
Three people have been jailed for life for the murder of a vulnerable woman who was tortured, starved and battered to death. Shakira Spencer, 35, died after falling under the influence of her ...
Cyane seized four American slave ships in her first year on station. Trenchard developed a good level of co-operation with the Royal Navy. Four additional U.S. warships were sent to the African coast in 1820 and 1821. A total of 11 American slave ships were taken by the U.S. Navy over this period. Then American enforcement activity reduced.