The Disturbing Truth About Breeding Farms During Slavery The antebellum period of American history is characterized by disturbing slavery. Its entire economic output was dependent on slave labor and the reduction of persons into property. Yet at the turn of the 19th century, the transatlantic slave trade saw huge opposition, acquiring slaves was no longer an option for colonial powers, so there had to be other ways. Welcome to Bizarre History, today we examine the story of breeding farms in Antebellum America. Laws and acts passed across the 18th century in America, steadily degraded and destroyed any personhood an enslaved individual had. This process most pointedly took the enslaved from ‘personhood’ to ‘thinghood’ – leaving all ‘rights’ belonging to the owner of the slave and not the person in slavery. As this ideology and culturizing took hold, the sale and purchasing of slaves became accepted with no objection from American society or its people.
The Disturbing Truth About Breeding Farms During Slavery
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The Disturbing Truth About Breeding Farms During Slavery The antebellum period of American history is characterized by disturbing slavery. Its entire economic output was dependent on slave labor and the reduction of persons into property. Yet at the turn of the 19th century, the transatlantic slave trade saw huge opposition, acquiring slaves was no longer an option for colonial powers, so there had to be other ways. Welcome to Bizarre History, today we examine the story of breeding farms in Antebellum America. Laws and acts passed across the 18th century in America, steadily degraded and destroyed any personhood an enslaved individual had. This process most pointedly took the enslaved from ‘personhood’ to ‘thinghood’ – leaving all ‘rights’ belonging to the owner of the slave and not the person in slavery. As this ideology and culturizing took hold, the sale and purchasing of slaves became accepted with no objection from American society or its people.
Virginia, Kentucky, and the Carolina’s were notorious for this as their land became less fertile due to over farming, eventually they turned to this especially after the ban in 1807 of the international slave trade. Basically I believe they initiated that ban not for moral reasons but there was enough chattel property over here that if they kept importing Africans eventually the whole slave economy would collapse.
Remember that by the start of the civil war, enslaved Africans in the south were worth more than the land on which they toiled. The ban made the price on enslaved Africans in america keep rising.
Remember that by the start of the civil war, enslaved Africans in the south were worth more than the land on which they toiled. The ban made the price on enslaved Africans in america keep rising.