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For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit. In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have never been able to forget the trauma of violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America's history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers reveals how sexual exploitation was both experienced and remembered by African Americans to inform how black Americans understand the political, social, and cultural nature of life in the United States. This fascinatin

Who reads Slave Breeding : Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History?

Author

Gregory D. Smithers

Publisher

University Press of Florida; Brand: University Press of Florida

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813042602

Category

history

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (123 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14