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The Model of an American Slave Breeding Farm
Rape For Profit: Just as the Founders Intended
There are historians that will tell you that there was “occasional” slave breeding by individual plantation owners. There was no such thing as a “breeding farm.” They say economically it would not be feasible to have a farm of slave women who did nothing but breed, producing no revenue for years at a time while requiring food, clothing, and healthcare. The average breeding farm didn’t follow that model unless it was supplemented by another source of revenue like a slave jail which gave access to the men, often the very bucks they were looking for to produce bigger, stronger slaves. The price a slave child could generate was partially based on height and frame. Men and women breeders were selected for their physical qualities over any other factor.
“I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm. What she produces is an addition to the capital, while his labors disappear in mere consumption.” -Thomas Jefferson
On the normal slave breeding farm, slave breeding was like a secondary line of business though it may have produced the most revenue…
