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Slave Breeding : Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History, Paperback / softback Book

Slave Breeding : Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History Paperback / softback

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"A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America.

Smithers's book will be hotly debated in the profession."--Michael L.

Ondaatje, University of Newcastle, Australia"As engaging as it is compelling, bold, and captivating, Smithers's Slave Breeding pulls the reader through its pages with heart-wrenching exposition of the dark and ugly chapter of what could rightly be characterized as the sexual zeitgeist of American national history."--Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State UniversityFor 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 refused to forget the 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 sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.

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