Slave breeding was widespread despite scholarly dismissal of it

Evidence

Contemporary scholars often dismiss the breeding of slave women on the basis that it occurred on such a small scale as to not merit attention. Yet a rather convincing body of evidence exists substantiating not only the existence of slave breeding but the fact that it was a widespread and common practice. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 120

Categorization

• QUESTION: Could chase the primary sources on slave breeding scale to weigh hooks’s case against the dismissing scholars.
• 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; Forced mating failed and gave way to slave-chosen partners — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 142

Related

• Breeding black women slaves became economically key once importation was restricted. (similarity 0.88)
• Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central (similarity 0.87)
• Forced mating failed and gave way to slave-chosen partners (similarity 0.87)
• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. (similarity 0.86)
• Planters rewarded slave motherhood while punishing abortion as theft of property. (similarity 0.81)
• Black slave gender roles replicated white patriarchal divisions of labor (similarity 0.80)
• Slave parents rarely prepared daughters for the reality of sexual exploitation (similarity 0.79)
• African women’s accustomed labor made them ideal plantation slaves. (similarity 0.79)
• Black women’s exploitation is better described as masculinization than black men’s de-masculinization. (similarity 0.78)
• Sexism made the black female slave’s lot harsher than the male’s (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Matrilineal inheritance of slave status made black women’s breeding economically central #expands (0.70)
• Forced mating failed and gave way to slave-chosen partners #contradicts (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 142