Slave breeding in the United States
Former prevalent economic practice in the US, especially after import of slaves was made illegal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of white enslavers to systematically force the reproduction of enslaved people to increase their wealth.[1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls, and favoring enslaved females who could produce a relatively large number of children.[1] The objective was for enslavers to increase the number of people they enslaved without incurring the cost of purchase, and to fill labor shortages caused by the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.[2]