SmarterThanTheAverageBear
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Yep. That's why the Southerners *wanted* the importation of slaves to be abolished. It actually hurt the market for them. They knew it. Breeding was where the money was.Any farmer will tell you it's cheaper to breed them than to import them.
Animals. That's how the southerns saw these human beings they put on auction blocks to trade, sell and rip babies from their mothers arms.
The slave population was large enough to be self sustaining in numbers by the early 1800's.
Why import them when you could make them here in America? And make them better! So thought the slavers.
A strong slave stud would be forced to inseminate hundreds of the the strongest and sturdiest of slave women. It was the south's early form of eugenics.
Course the slavers also had a pop at the women too. Wives even accepted it as a given. When you own them as property, raping the slaves, even the children, was pretty standard fare.
Now black men try to do that on their own.