Slave Breeding

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  Today in class we were asked to read a passage Slave Breeding. Then we must provide as much information about the passage and also information from our fellow classmates blog. The passage that I read is Here.

  Before times of fertility treatments and adoption, when it was still legal to have someone pick your cotton for free, now I’m told you must charge to have this done, but I remain unconvinced. Slave owners had a pretty difficult position on their hands. They had slaves, coincidentally, male slaves outnumbered the female slaves, and as we all have a concrete understanding of biology, in order to get more slaves you needed woman. This sounds simple enough, but infant mortality was sky high, this could be because slave-owners were too busy trying to get people to be called ‘Tobey’ and beating people with sticks, or other inanimate objects, but I digress. Woman, specifically pregnant woman, were a hot commodity back then, and were routinely sold to keep those every precious slaves coming. Slave owners also restored to some mild Nazi-propaganda, encouraging young woman to breed as much as they could, promising them freedom if they have enough offspring. But as history told us, these were lies. In conjunction with false promises and human trafficking, slave owners would also resort to rape in order to keep the quota high. These ‘masters’ would seduce, I’m almost 100% sure that slave/master seduction does not look like an R&B music video, the woman, and would give them children. If I learned anything while reading this I’m now traumatized by the thought of procreation, and am now happy that Lincoln freed the slaves, as if I wasn’t before.