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And just where do you think modern attitudes against abortion & contraception came from?
6 Startling Things About Sex Farms During Slavery That You May Not Know
The fertility of enslaved women was examined by owners to make sure they were able to birth as many children as possible. Secretly, slaveowners would impregnate enslaved women and when the child was born and grew to an age where he could work on the fields, they would take the “very same children (of their) own blood and make slaves out of them,” as pointed out in the National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox on Slaveholders’ Sexual Abuse of Slaves.
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When enslaved males turned 15 years old–and younger in some cases–they had their first inspection. Boys who were under-developed, had their testicles castrated and sent to the market or used on the farm. Each enslaved male was expected to get 12 females pregnant a year. The men were used for breeding for five years. One enslaved man name Burt produced more than 200 offspring, according to the Slave Narratives.
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If the enslaved woman was considered “pretty,” she would be bought by the plantation owner and given special treatment in the house, but often subjected to horrifying cruelty by the master’s wife, including the beheading of a child because he was the product of an enslaved-master affair.
SOURCE: https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/26/6-startling-things-about-sex-farms-during-slavery-that-you-may-not-know/7/
THIS IS OUR NATION'S HISTORY
Behold the hand of present patriarchy which hearkens back to the breeding of slaves - an era to which they would like to return all of America's girls & women. An era where no woman chooses whether to become pregnant or when or how or by whom. An era where no woman has any choice about if, when or how or why to end a pregnancy. No. That's all up to the white men to decide. Today, they would have white women bred as much as possible whereas dark skinned children (such as those currently ripped away from their parents and placed into Trump concentration camps) would be aborted, made into child laborers or sold into the sex trade. The Jeffery Epsteins and Donald Trumps of the world know all about that. The woman gets no say. Slave breeding is what they want. They wanted it then. They want it now. It's all tied together, folks. Every bit of it.
It's not abortion that is so immoral. Or giving women control over their own bodies and lives. But slavery - is the bigger overshadowing immorality behind all of this. It was then. It is now. And this should be pointed out at every turn. To every patriarchal ass and their supporters who advocate for the enslavement of America's women. It should be tied back to its origins: slave breeding where white men and ONLY white men choose a woman's bodily and life fate, never the woman herself.
Just saying...Realize where the attitudes of today's anti-abortionists and anti-contraception zealots originated from and that this is an era they desperately want to return to - slavery: for ALL of America's girls and women.
Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding
https://www.thenation.com/article/reproductive-rights-and-long-hand-slave-breeding/
Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom, presents the most compelling conceptual and constitutional frame I know for considering women’s bodily integrity and defending it from the right.
In brief, her argument rolls out like this. The broad culture tells a standard story of the struggle for reproductive rights, beginning with the flapper, climaxing with the pill, Griswold v. Connecticut and an assumption of privacy rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and concluding with Roe v. Wade. The same culture tells a traditional story of black emancipation, beginning with the Middle Passage, climaxing with Dred Scott, Harpers Ferry and Civil War and concluding with the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Both stories have a postscript—a battle royal between liberation and reaction—but, as Bridgewater asserts, “Taken together, these stories have no comprehensive meaning. They tell no collective tale. They create no expectation of sexual freedom and no protection against, or remedy for, reproductive slavery. They exist in separate spheres; that is a mistake.” What unites them but what both leave out, except incidentally, is the experience of black women. Most significantly, they leave out “the lost chapter of slave breeding.”
In brief, her argument rolls out like this. The broad culture tells a standard story of the struggle for reproductive rights, beginning with the flapper, climaxing with the pill, Griswold v. Connecticut and an assumption of privacy rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and concluding with Roe v. Wade. The same culture tells a traditional story of black emancipation, beginning with the Middle Passage, climaxing with Dred Scott, Harpers Ferry and Civil War and concluding with the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Both stories have a postscript—a battle royal between liberation and reaction—but, as Bridgewater asserts, “Taken together, these stories have no comprehensive meaning. They tell no collective tale. They create no expectation of sexual freedom and no protection against, or remedy for, reproductive slavery. They exist in separate spheres; that is a mistake.” What unites them but what both leave out, except incidentally, is the experience of black women. Most significantly, they leave out “the lost chapter of slave breeding.”
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