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v. t. e. Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth. [ 1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls due to forced inter inbreeding with fellow slaves ...
Slave marriages in the United States were typically illegal before the American Civil War abolished slavery in the US. Enslaved African Americans were legally considered chattel, and they were denied civil and political rights until the United States abolished slavery with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Census record of 1880, Louisville, Kentucky: Tarlton Arterburn, occupation "retired negro trader" shares a household with Mary E. Arterburn; Tarlton is classified as white, Mary is classified as black Arterburn left Mary everything in his will, directing that "the net income arising from my estate my executors are directed to pay to Mary Eliza Shipp alias Arterburn (of color) for and during ...
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh. Because of the power relationships at work, slave women in the United States were at high risk for rape and sexual abuse. [6] [7] Their children were repeatedly taken away from them and sold as farm animals; usually they never saw each other again. Many slaves fought ...
Children of the plantation. A rare instance of a mixed race baby portrayed next to the baby's darker mother. John Brown, about to be hanged, kisses the baby. Louis Ransom, 1863, reproduced as a Currier & Ives print. "Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery ...
Interracial marriage. A multiracial European family walking in the park. Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities . In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid -era South Africa as miscegenation.
Of the 275,000 new interracial marriages in 2010, 43% were white-Hispanic, 14.4% were white-Asian, 11.9% were white-black and the rest were other combinations. [46] However, interracial marriage has become more common over the past decades due to increasing racial diversity, and liberalizing attitudes toward the practice.
John Robert Dunn (1834 – 5 August 1895) was a South African settler, hunter, and diplomat of British descent. Born in Port Alfred in 1834, he spent his childhood in Port Natal /Durban. [ 1]: 24 He was orphaned as a teenager, and lived in native dress on the land near the Tugela River. His conversance with Zulu customs and language allowed his ...