The Horrors of Forced Breeding Among the Enslaved
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
When they couldn’t continue human trafficking, they turned to a new horror to ensure a supply of enslaved labor. Enslavers forcibly bred the enslaved to serve their evil dreams of wealth, and the rate at which they did so was alarming.
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| 0:27.4 | When they couldn't continue human trafficking, they turned to a new horror to ensure a supply of enslaved labor. Enslavers forcibly |
| 0:40.9 | bred the enslaved to serve their evil dreams of wealth, and the rate at which they did so was alarming. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Len with Push Black, and this is two-minute black history, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 1:08.4 | In 1808, the act prohibiting the importation of slaves took effect, cutting off the primary source of enslaved labor, Africa. |
| 1:20.0 | The international slave trade may have ended, but not the need for enslaved workers. |
| 1:26.3 | Banning the international slave trade didn't stop the growth of the enslaved population. |
| 1:32.3 | How could the number of enslaved people have quadrupled between 1790 and 1860? |
| 1:38.3 | The system would create a white lie to explain it. |
| 1:42.3 | White planters spread a myth that the explosive growth of the enslaved population was because |
| 1:48.8 | of black hypersexuality. |
| 1:51.1 | But the stress of enslavement, along with high rates of infant mortality, proved this claim |
| 1:56.7 | false. |
| 1:58.0 | The truth was more sinister. |
| 2:05.6 | Breeding farms created to mass-producing slave people for sale were the source of this population increase. Two of the largest of these farms were located in |
| 2:11.4 | Richmond, Virginia, and Maryland's eastern shore. When the slave economy was threatened, |
| 2:19.7 | white supremacy turned to breeding black people like animals. |
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