Black History Facts. Slave Breeding Farms.
Black History Facts. Slave Breeding Farms. Let me preface this by saying how disgusted & furious this makes me. I told you, you may love my post, they make you angry &/or cry well here you go. Slave breeding farms was long a part of slavery. As in other slave countries, its purpose was to make more slaves. Slave breeding became more important in the United States the 19th century when the Atlantic slave trade ended. As with other commodities, scarcity caused the price of slaves to rise. More slaves meant more money for their owners. Pregnancy was encouraged. Many slave masters raped their own slaves to make more slave children. It produced mulatto children. White men who owned slaves would often rape black women. Slave owners to increase the number of people they enslaved without the cost of purchase, and to fill labor shortages caused by the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.