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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.
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 ...
Enslaved young woman: We were mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, farmers, priests, merchants, musicians. And for hundreds of years, we were sold into slavery as part of a war, or ...
Oct 29, 2021 · Fictive kinship relationships developed and persisted for those who might have ended up in the same place in the Americas. Indeed, the enslaved men and women constantly developed new familial bonds as those they considered kin were sold. Holding on to elements of what they had left behind and creating new bonds was a way enslaved women coped.
- Nemata Blyden
- nemata@gwu.edu
- 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
After 1807: the Royal Navy and suppression of the slave trade. In 1808, the British West Africa Squadron was established to suppress illegal slave trading. Between 1820 and 1870, Royal Navy patrols seized over 1500 ships and freed 150,000 Africans destined for slavery in the Americas. Many people believed that the only way to eradicate slavery ...
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The first is that enslaved status was inherited. When an enslaved woman had a baby, that baby was considered legally enslaved, and the "property" the mother's "owner". This meant enslaved children were always at risk of being sold to someone else and separated from their families. The other difference is that enslaved status was a lifetime ...
