Breeding+Cabins


 * Breeding.** The word most commonly refers to animals, but is the best word to describe slaves being forced to conceive. In the book we read, //Send One Angel Down//, Master Turner forces one of his slaves to conceive a child with him, and in this case, rape. Slave owners used breeding to control the slave population and to create a new "breed" of slaves.[[image:457px-The_Barbadoes_Mulatto_Girl.jpg caption="This is a picture of a slave woman of mixed ethnicities, or a mulatto" link="http://www.theworld.org/files/images/457px-The_Barbadoes_Mulatto_Girl.jpg"]]

Breeding cabins were cabins on a plantation where breeding slaves conceive. Since conditions were harsh, the death rate amongst slaves was high. Due to this, plantation owners encouraged their slaves to have kids, started at the age of 13. Many slave owners, such as Master Turner in //Send One Angel Down// encouraged his slaves to bear children so he can sell them and make a profit. Some slave owners went so far as to letting a slave have her freedom if she gives birth to 15 kids. In slave auctions, masters sometimes would even advertise their slave as "a good breeding slave".