tree_portal quoted Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
Idealogical exaltation of motherhood--as popular as it was during the nineteenth century--did not extend to slaves. In fact, in the eyes of the slaveholders, slave women were not mothers at all; they were simply instruments guaranteeing the growth of the slave labor force.
— Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (Page 7)
Although bringing slaves from Africa was put to a stop, that didn't stop slave masters from thinking of ways to 'import' slaves. They decided they would do it naturally, have the slaves breed for them so they can sell the offspring elsewhere. In South Carolina, it was ruled in a court that slaves had no rights as mothers. Truly fucked up times.