Breeding black women slaves became economically key once importation was restricted.

Evidence

As efforts on the part of outraged white men to curtail inter-racial relationships between black men and white women succeeded, the black female slave acquired a new status. Planters recognized the economic gain they could amass by breeding black slave women. The virulent attacks on slave importation also led to more emphasis on slave breeding. Unlike the offspring of relationships between black men and white women, the off-spring of any black slave woman regardless of the race of her mate would be legally slaves, and therefore the property of the owner to whom the female slave belonged. As the market value of the black female slave increased, larger numbers were stolen or purchased by white slave traders. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier learned claim that mothers’ status determined slave offspring legality, and to broader American slavery economic history. — connects to: Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central; Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 48; Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26 (+6 more)

Related

• Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central (similarity 0.92)
• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. (similarity 0.88)
• Slave breeding was widespread despite scholarly dismissal of it (similarity 0.88)
• Planters rewarded slave motherhood while punishing abortion as theft of property. (similarity 0.82)
• Black women suffered quadruple exploitation as laborers, domestic workers, breeders, and rape targets (similarity 0.82)
• African women’s accustomed labor made them ideal plantation slaves. (similarity 0.82)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.81)
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex (similarity 0.81)
• Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor (similarity 0.81)
• Enslaved black women worked as hard as men but were barred from supervisory roles (similarity 0.81)
• Black women bore the brunt of slave-ship terror because they could not retaliate (similarity 0.81)
• Understanding black women’s status requires analyzing race and sex together (similarity 0.81)
• Sexual exploitation of black women continued and was institutionalized after slavery. (similarity 0.80)
• Sexism and racism were twin oppressive forces in black women’s slave experience (similarity 0.80)
• Black women’s exploitation is better described as masculinization than black men’s de-masculinization. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central #corroborates (0.85)
• Slave breeding was widespread despite scholarly dismissal of it #corroborates (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 120
• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. #contradicts (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 48
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26
• Nineteenth-century black women endured double enslavement by race and sex #expands (0.60)
• Enslaved black women shared racial status with men but faced sexist subordination #expands (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 150
• Labor economics drove the legal invention of Blackness as property. #expands (0.55)
• Sexual exploitation of black women continued and was institutionalized after slavery. #expands (0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 189
• Enslaved women limited their fertility to strike at the plantation system #contradicts (0.45) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 336