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Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth. [1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls due to forced inter inbreeding with fellow slaves in hopes ...
Others treated their multiracial children as property; Alexander Scott Withers, for instance, sold two of his children to slave traders, where they were sold again. Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention.
Census record of 1880, Louisville, Kentucky: Tarlton Arterburn, occupation "retired negro trader" shares a household with Mary E. Arterburn; Tarlton is classified as white, Mary is classified as black Arterburn left Mary everything in his will, directing that "the net income arising from my estate my executors are directed to pay to Mary Eliza Shipp alias Arterburn (of color) for and during ...
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh. Because of the power relationships at work, slave women in the United States were at high risk for rape and sexual abuse. [6] [7] Their children were repeatedly taken away from them and sold as farm animals; usually they never saw each other again. Many slaves fought ...
Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a slave breeding farm, [1] as well as a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th ...
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-72451-8. Hunter, Tera W. (2017). Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-23745-2. Hunter, Tera W. (1997). To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil ...
Until the age of 10, children served as nurses. When the plantation grew tobacco, children were at a good height to remove and kill tobacco worms from the crops. [134] Once he began growing wheat, fewer people were needed to maintain the crops, so Jefferson established manual trades. He stated that children "go into the ground or learn trades."
A family member described her as nursing "nearly all of the children in the family" and said that they loved her as a "second mother". [1] "Mammy's Cupboard", 1940 novelty architecture restaurant in Adams County, Mississippi. A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting Black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, among nursing ...