Did slave breeding actually exist?

[newarkhiphop]

Why couldnt you?

You can breed dogs for the sole purpose of herding sheep.

You can breeds sleek race horses.

People have been doing this for hundreds of years.

It took hundreds of years to even domesticate dogs, and them to get them to the specific breeds they are now took several hundreds more (selecting traits, in breeding / line breeding, culling unwanted animals etc) Another thing to consider is maturity rates for dogs is two years, obviously you can use them for work before that age but most working dogs 1 yr old is the young your going to start them at. With humans you really would have wait until (as sick as this sounds) 7/8 yrs old before they would be useful and even then kid would burn out quick

So imo , forcing slaves to have more children probably did happen but not on a large scakryand with very little if any scientific motivation behind it

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

They most definitely used selective breeding. They didn't PICK or PURCHASE weak brehs.
They didn't ALLOW certain people to breed or marry.
They called strong brehs BUCKS...they knew about Coromantines and Mandingos...
"If you look at Africa"...If that's the case, they should be dominating world sports...they're not.
If you put it on a hood level and an individual level: Somalis move in, outnumber us, still get beat the fukk up.
Nigerians move in, outnumber us, still get beat the fukk up.
Same with jamaicans, but that got gunny...ain't no more shower posse.
Slavery lasted the longest in the states, the selective breeding program was advanced, and American Science was way ahead of the rest of the world at that time. Slavery built America into a superpower...OF COURSE they bred selectively...people weren't just being born all willy nilly...

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

I need that strong buck here to breed with this mammy. Why would they purchase and move slaves for their muscular qualities? Why were we on auction blocks being examined like horses? Are y'all dense, very young, or trolling?

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Slave breeding in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Like you didn't KNOW this? American Chattel slavery was way different. We were selectively bred on purpose to work harder and endure more. We outlasted native americans because we had resistance to the white man's diseases. They did not...and they did not have the physical capacity to maintain work...they'd also rebel more often since they were on their own land. I admire them.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

The prohibition of the African slave-trade after 1807 limited the supply of slaves in the United States. The invention of the cotton gin enabled expanded cultivation in the uplands of short-staple cotton, leading to clearing lands cultivating cotton through large areas of the Deep South, especially the Black Belt. The demand for labor in the area increased sharply and an internal slave market expanded. At the same time, the Upper South had an excess supply of slaves because of a shift to mixed crops agriculture, which was less labor-intensive than tobacco. During this time period, the terms "breeding slaves", "child bearing women", "breeding period", "too old to breed", etc., became familiar.[8]

Planters in the Upper South states started selling slaves to the Deep South, generally through slave traders. Louisville, Kentucky, on the Ohio River was a major slave market and port for shipping slaves downriver by the Mississippi to the South. New Orleans had the largest slave market in the country and became the fourth largest city in the US by 1840 and the wealthiest, mostly because of its slave trade and associated businesses.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

From a slave's ACCOUNT:
In the antebellum years, numerous escaped slaves wrote about their experiences in books called slave narratives. Many recounted that at least a portion of slave owners continuously interfered in the sexual lives of their slaves (usually the women). The slave narratives also testified that slave women were subjected to arranged marriages, forced matings, sexual violation by masters, their sons or overseers, and other forms of abuse.

The historian E. Franklin Frazier, in his book The Negro Family, stated that "there were masters who, without any regard for the preferences of their slaves, mated their human chattel as they did their stock." Ex-slave Maggie Stenhouse remarked, "Durin' slavery there were stockmen. They was weighed and tested. A man would rent the stockman and put him in a room with some young women he wanted to raise children from

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

warriors already exist in africa. We don't need individuals taking credit for God given gifts friends.

They simply took more and made sure those qualities stayed, and anything inferior left.
The only reason we're not supermen:
30% cac dna on average. None of their problems, though...

 

[Mr. Somebody]

They simply took more and made sure those qualities stayed, and anything inferior left.
The only reason we're not supermen:
30% cac dna on average. None of their problems, though...

Some Not mOst.

The average kidnapper could not afford to have a breeding plantation

 

[Kobe24]

Is there any proof that slaves were actually bred to certain spec here in the US?

yeah they brought in the biggest and strongest, they had no use for the small dudes that would die off easily.

 

[How Sway?]

Was about to post the exact same response.

To get a clue on the matter, the largest slave breeding Farms was located in Maryland around what is now known as Baltimore. Fast forward today, the highest cases of sexual molestation and incest among black people. .........Baltimore Maryland!!!

lank?

 

[live it to the limit]

Watch the movie Mandingo. I would say yes.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

This more than likely the correct answer....... nikkas love white folks so much they wanna give them props for our genetics too....... That conditioning is strong

People aren't giving white folks credit for our genetics. But to say that we weren't bred in the U.S. During the slave trade in order to produce bigger and stronger slaves would be disingenuous.

I know for a fact breeding farms were prevalent

 

[Kobe24]

They most definitely used selective breeding. They didn't PICK or PURCHASE weak brehs.
They didn't ALLOW certain people to breed or marry.
They called strong brehs BUCKS...they knew about Coromantines and Mandingos...
"If you look at Africa"...If that's the case, they should be dominating world sports...they're not.
If you put it on a hood level and an individual level: Somalis move in, outnumber us, still get beat the fukk up.
Nigerians move in, outnumber us, still get beat the fukk up.
Same with jamaicans, but that got gunny...ain't no more shower posse.
Slavery lasted the longest in the states, the selective breeding program was advanced, and American Science was way ahead of the rest of the world at that time. Slavery built America into a superpower...OF COURSE they bred selectively...people weren't just being born all willy nilly...

Your a smart guy tho, there is a reason America has the best athletes.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Some Not mOst.

The average kidnapper could not afford to have a breeding plantation

He wasn't kidnapping for himself, nor was he trading for himself. When you represent a world power, you're limitless in that aspect. Naivete' is next to sinfulness. God gave YOU a sound mind.

 

[twhatever]

Absolutely,there were forced matings.Evidence comes in the form of slave narratives.You can read many accounts from the WPA slave narratives.

Example:Ex-slave Maggie Stenhouse remarked, "Durin' slavery there were stockmen. They was weighed and tested. A man would rent the stockman and put him in a room with some young women he wanted to raise children from.

Source:Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 154.