TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smithers,Gregory D.
TI  - Slave breeding: sex, violence, and memory in African American history 
SN  - 9780813042602
AV  - E443 .S538 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - History
KW  - Slavery
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; American abolitionism and slave-breeding discourse --; Slavery, the lost cause, and African American history --; Black history and slave breeding in the early twentieth century --; The theater of memory --; The WPA narratives and slave breeding --; Sex, violence, and the quest for civil rights --; Slave breeding in literature, film, and new media --; Epilogue; 2; b
N2  - This book is an exploration of the idea of selective and forced slave breeding in the U.S. based on the collective memory and folktales of the descendants of enslaved people. 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, a historian 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, the author 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 fascinating, provocative work sheds much-needed light on African American cultural memories, the perceptions of fragile Black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color
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