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Apr 24, 2024 · ABSTRACT. This article examines the extent to which enslavers across the antebellum South forced enslaved men and women to reproduce. Using a spectrum of violence as a tool of coercion, enslavers coerced, cajoled, and forced enslaved people to reproduce the institution of slavery, selecting specific individuals for their desirable characteristics and then exploited their offspring.
dominance over men and women.”28 However, we must question to what extent enslaved men controlled these relationships if it all hinged on the enslaver’s permission, and could be dismissed ifthey decided to sell either party, or partnerthem withsomeone else. Matters of agency and power complicate how enslaved men tested the boundaries of
Apr 19, 2021 · In this way, enslaved women were both producers and reproducers of slavery, and these children also grew up to unwillingly follow in their parents’ footsteps. This was known, at the time, as ‘slave-breeding’, but will be referred to here as ‘forced reproduction.’ Houghton, G. H., photographer. (1862) Family of slaves at the Gaines ...
Aug 26, 2024 · Between 1790 and 1860, more than 1 million enslaved men, women, and children were transported in a large and profitable domestic trade from the Upper South to the Deep South. Whether through the transatlantic trade or through the domestic trade of enslaved people, the human toll of the slave trade in terror, death, and widespread social disruption is difficult to fathom.
- Triangular Trade
- Fellow Africans' Role in The Slave Trade
- African Communities Beyond The Americas
- Role of Resistance
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was one leg of a three-part system known as the triangular trade. The forming of the triangle began when European ships, carrying firearms and manufactured goods, sailed to Africa, where the commodities were traded for enslaved men, women and children. Next, the same ships transported the human cargo across the Atlant...
Another downplayed factor is the central role played by ruling African states in the capture and sale of fellow Africans to European traders—an estimated 90 percent of all captives. The main motivation behind these transactions was the acquisition of guns for use in inter-ethnic warfare. The enslaved were abducted from as far north as present-day S...
Predating the trans-Atlantic slave trade were eastward and northbound slave-tradingenterprises known broadly as the Arab Slave Trade. They contributed significantly to the creation of an African diasporic presence in the Old World. “People from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and the Swahili Coast were deported as slaves to the Indian Peninsula,” says S...
For the nearly four centuries before its abolition by all nations involved, “the trans-Atlantic slave trade not only influenced the composition of slave communities in the Americas, it also powerfully shaped slave resistance,” according to Marjoleine Kars, author of Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast. “Take, for...
- Nicholas Boston
Conditions on board slave ships were appalling: huge numbers of people were crammed into very small spaces. Men, women and children were separated, families being torn apart. Overcrowding, poor diet, dehydration and disease led to high death rates. 450,000 of the 3.4 million Africans transported in British ships died on the Atlantic crossing.
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Enslaved men and women were beaten mercilessly, separated from loved ones arbitrarily, and, regardless of sex, treated as property in the eyes of the law. Africans on the slave bark Wildfire.
