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Did slave owners sleep with their slaves?
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- 10 months ago
A lot of slave owners fornicated with their female slaves, the slaves became pregnant and had the slave owners' children. It explains the diversity of skin colors in African Americans today.
I'm not sure if any of the sleeping between the slave owners and their slaves were consensual.
@John P: but the slavery in North America were most common in the South - in states like Georgia.
- Anonymous10 months ago
No, they raped their slaves.
- chorleLv 710 months ago
often some even became concubines or wives, have you read the books of the law in the old testament. It is not like slavery suddenly started with the sugar or the cotton industry
- curtisports2Lv 710 months ago
Many did. The earliest mixing of the races in the US colonies and later in the states occurred from masters impregnating their female slaves.
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Slaves may have had unconsentual sex with their masters, but they were not raped. You cannot rape what you own. They were there to be done with as the masters saw fit. You cannot judge the past by today's standards.