Originally posted by Prince of the Night
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Originally posted by Prince of the Night
It seems to me that we get fewer references to women being repeatedly forced to become pregnant as an additional source of slaves for work or sale, but it's still documented. It's at least one thing that refutes arguments of slaves being an expense that outweighs the value of not paying them.
Originally posted by Prince of the Night
It's similar for work gangs on the plantations or mines. As long as you've got enough and any given one is kept for enough years, then the occasional death to brutality or suicide doesn't mean you lose money, just some profits, and you're still likely making quite enough.
That book will emphasize such an example because it was written to promote abolitionism, and undoubtedly there were people whose trauma led them to suicide, but we still have the accounts of innumerable former slaves that had children taken from them and continued living with that. It's horrible, but in the calculations of the slave owner it is perceived in terms of lowered financial risk.
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