6 Surprising Things About Sex Farms During Slavery That You Didn't Know About:
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1 - The fertility of enslaved women was examined by slave owners to make sure they were capable of procreating and having as many children as possible. Secretly, slave owners raped enslaved women and when the born child grew up and reached a certain age where they could work in the fields, they took their own children and turned them into slaves.
2 - It was common for black people to be sexually subordinate to slave owners, even black men. It was part of the black man's function, as a "tool of animation," to be an instrument of pleasure.
3 - When black men turned 15 years of age, and even less in some cases, they underwent their first inspection. Boys who were underdeveloped were castrated and sent to the slave market or used on the plantation. Each black man had to impregnate at least 12 black women per year. Men were used for reproduction for five years. An enslaved black man named Burt had more than 200 children.
4 - To combat the high mortality rate among enslaved people, plantation owners required black women to begin having children at age 13. By 20, enslaved women were expected to have four or five children. As an incentive, plantation owners promised freedom to black women who gave birth to at least 15 children.
5 - If the black woman was considered "beautiful", she was bought by the owner of the farm and received special treatment in the house, but was often subjected to terrible cruelty from the master's wife, including the decapitation of children who were the result of rape.
6 - Often, the plantation owner, to entertain his friends, forced enslaved black people to have orgies with multiple peers and have sexual relations in front of them. And white men often participated.