Well, sometimes a white owner just bought females slaves and “bred” them himself… Since the result would them be a mulatto, quadroon, or octroon, if the the result was female the owner would wind up with an extremely valuable slave that could be sold into prostitution (in other words - yes, the owner would sell his own daughters for a profit. *Originally posted by Pantone Swatchbook *Īs I understand it, American slaves of African origin were bred according to excellent physical characteristics - strength, durability, health - but what practices did slaveowners use to mate men and women? These folks are neither meek nor short of words when they get to throwing it down, live and direct When I’s meet a cullud person on dat plantation, I’s sho mos’ly dat it am my brudder or sistah.” His father had roughly 50 kids – that Jones knew of and could count off- hand. When dey don’t satisfy dis nigger, I’s transpo’t dem.”Īnd if we want a different context to indulge the mythology of the voracious black sexual appetite, then consider the circumstance Lewis Jones was born into: “My pappy am the breeding nigger. You wanna talk about sistahs with 'tude? Check out Mandy Morrow talking about her string of marriages, the last of which began in 1920: “If I wants de pet, den I’s gits de dawg or de cat. Of course, there’s the expected sufferation, like from interviewee Austin Grant: “They didn’t give us nothin’, I tell you, but a grubbin’ hoe and axe and the whip.”īut there are also the sidewinders, like from Florence Napier: “Ise sho ‘joy myse’f on de old plantation, an’ weuns all had a good time.”
Black experience in the diaspora is far and wide, timeless and familiar. I don’t remember the days of slavery, but I got some remedial education reading her chapters on plantation life, the breeding of slaves and how it was for men and women.
One slave trader from Virginia boasted that his successful breeding policies enabled him to sell 6,000 slave children a year. To encourage child-bearing some population owners promised women slaves their freedom after they had produced fifteen children. Young women were often advertised for sale as “good breeding stock”. Child-bearing started around the age of thirteen, and by twenty the women slaves would be expected to have four or five children. To replace their losses, plantation owners encouraged the slaves to have children. Both male and female slaves were routinely paraded naked before White audiences to be sold to the highest bidder. Many selected women conceived twenty or more children for this purpose. Many were forced to breed in order to produce superior offspring. The second type of slave that was in demand was the strong male and female slave that was used as a laborer. Students were paid as much as $20 to impregnate a Black slave. This was particular the case in the French Quarters of New Orleans were some slave owners even resorted to placing ads in college newspapers for White students to come by the plantation for sex.
These Mulatto women were also often sold into prostitution.
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