List of white American slave traders who had mixed-race children with enslaved black women
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This is a list of white American slave traders who had mixed-raced children by black women they had at one time legally enslaved.
Historian Alexander J. Finley asserts that sex trafficking inherent in American slavery sometimes resulted in long-term relationships, "Enslaved women sold for sex were not purchased to labor toward a tangible end product, such as cotton bolls, but they labored nonetheless, producing emotion, pleasure, and a sense of mastery in the person who enslaved them...In many cases, slave traders...sold the women they raped. In other cases the traders kept certain enslaved women with them for a number of years, or even for a lifetime, relying on these women for domestic, sexual, and socially reproductive labor."[2] Slave traders who fathered biracial children were part of a widespread "racial and sexual double standard...in the slaveholding states [that] gave elite white men a free pass for their sexual relationships with black women, as long as the men neither flaunted nor legitimated such unions."[3]
- Tarleton Arterburn[1]
- Rice C. Ballard[4]: 1816
- Hector Davis[5]
- R. H. Dickinson[6]
- Isaac Franklin[7]: 419
- Matthew Garrison[8]
- William Goodwin[6]
- John Hagan[9][page needed]
- Robert Lumpkin[10][11]
- Silas Omohundro[9][page needed]
- Jourdan Saunders[12]
- Jonathan M. Wilson[13][14][15]
See also[edit]
- Mary Lumpkin
- Catharine (Tennessee)
- List of American slave traders
- Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States
- Samuel S. Boyd § Letters
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Arterburn in Jefferson County", Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774–1989, pp. 53–54, Images 32–33 of 670 – via Ancestry.com (subscription required)
- ^ Finley (2020), pp. 10–11.
- ^ Clinton (2010), p. 218.
- ^ McDaniel, Caleb (2023-12-05). "The Slave Traders' Economy". The American Historical Review. 128 (4): 1814–1817. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhad465. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ^ Finley (2020), pp. 36–37.
- ^ a b Finley (2020), p. 37.
- ^ Colby, Robert (September 2022). "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America". Book Reviews. Journal of American History. 109 (2): 419–420. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaac256.
- ^ "Matthew Garrison's Two African-American Families". The Courier-Journal. 2018-02-24. pp. A10. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ a b Finley (2020).
- ^ Green, Kristen; Herron, Carolivia (2022-04-13). "How Mary Lumpkin Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail". Lilith Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ Finley (2020), p. 36.
- ^ Rothman, Joshua D. (May 2022). "The American Life of Jourdan Saunders, Slave Trader". Journal of Southern History. 88 (2): 227–256. doi:10.1353/soh.2022.0054. ISSN 2325-6893.
- ^ Finley (2020), pp. 107–108.
- ^ "Entry for John A Cammach and C W Cammach, 09 Mar 1873". Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837–1957 – via FamilySearch.
- ^ "Entry for Chas B Wilson and Jonathan Wilson, 19 Feb 1878". Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837–1957 – via FamilySearch.
Sources[edit]
- Clinton, Catherine (2010). "Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond". In Brooten, Bernadette J.; Hazelton, Jacqueline (eds.). Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 213–228. doi:10.1057/9780230113893. ISBN 978-0-230-10017-6. OCLC 696332790.
- Finley, Alexandra J. (2020). An Intimate Economy. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-6135-3. - Chapter 1: Omohundro & Hinton, Chapter 4: Hagan & Cheatham