The Breeding Farms: America's Darkest Secret of Slavery

Описание: What American slaveholders did to Black women was worse than slavery itself.

After 1808, when the U.S. banned the importation of slaves from Africa, the South didn't stop slavery — they industrialized it. Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky stopped growing crops and started growing people. They called it "natural increase." But there was nothing natural about it.
This is the story of the breeding farms — the darkest chapter of American slavery that they never taught you in school.

📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

WPA Slave Narratives Collection (Library of Congress)
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave...
Frederick Douglass, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" (1845)
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861)
Edward Baptist, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" (2014)
Ned & Constance Sublette, "The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry" (2016)
Daina Ramey Berry, "The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave" (2017)
Gregory D. Smithers, "Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History" (2012)
"Lost Friends" Column, Southwestern Christian Advocate (1879-1900)
Thomas Jefferson's correspondence on "natural increase"
https://www.monticello.org/
Massie Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society

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