Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves.
Evidence
The scarcity of workers coupled with the relatively few numbers of black women in American colonies caused some white male planters to encourage, persuade, and coerce immigrant white females to engage in sexual relationships with black male slaves as a means of producing new workers. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 48
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Breeding black women slaves became economically key once importation was restricted. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 50; Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central; Planters rewarded slave motherhood while punishing abortion as theft of property. (+2 more)
Related
- Planters rewarded slave motherhood while punishing abortion as theft of property. (similarity 0.95)
- Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central (similarity 0.89)
- Breeding black women slaves became economically key once importation was restricted. (similarity 0.88)
- Slave breeding was widespread despite scholarly dismissal of it (similarity 0.86)
- African women’s accustomed labor made them ideal plantation slaves. (similarity 0.82)
- Forced mating failed and gave way to slave-chosen partners (similarity 0.80)
- Slave parents rarely prepared daughters for the reality of sexual exploitation (similarity 0.80)
- Enslaved black women worked as hard as men but were barred from supervisory roles (similarity 0.79)
- Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor (similarity 0.79)
- White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.79)
- Black women’s exploitation is better described as masculinization than black men’s de-masculinization. (similarity 0.79)
- Slavery forced black women into work independence, not voluntary choice (similarity 0.78)
- Slave working lives lasted only ten to twenty years under colonial conditions (similarity 0.78)