Good Breeding Stock.

African men outnumbered African women, so Slave repoduction was low. Prolong Breast Feeding inhibited conception, that couple with high infant mortatlity among Slave Women. This ensured a low rate of Slave repoduction. The death rate among Slaves were high. Plantation onwers encouraged Slaves to have children. Child bearing among Slave women began at age 13. and  by age 20 she was expected to have had 4or 5 childern. Planters promised slave women freedom if they would have 15 children.

Charlas Bell a Slave from Maryland speaks of a Slave Market that sold Pregnant Slaves. A tall thin weather beaten White Man, wanted to buy a couple of Breeding wenches and would pay a good price for them. He then walked along our lines, as we stood Chained togeather. As he looked at the whole of us, he turn to 2  pregnant Slave women and asked our Master how much.Our Master replied these 2 were 2  of the best breeding wenches in all of Maryland. That one the   20yo  had produced 7 children. The other one a 19yo the Master said would make a good Breeders, and would be cheap at a $1000 each, but since they could not keep up with the gang, he would let them go for $1200 for the 2. Young women were often advertised as good Breeding Stock.

One Slave trader in Virginia boasted that his successful breeding policies enable him to sell 6000 Slave children a year.

There were no recognition of Marriage between Slaves, at any level of goverment. Slaves may have jumped the Broom but couples could be broken up and sold at anytime. And we must remember white males had total and unrestricted access to Black Women.

 We as Black American are trying to runaway from our Hisory, I feel we should embrace it. All problems that we have experienced in  America  today were bred and formed  starting in 1505 when  Black Slaves were brought to America. My Blog give Black Amerians a tool for understanding Racism.

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