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The Cotton Gin

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The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin
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Slave breeding in the United States includes any practice of slave ownership that aimed to systematically influence the reproduction of slaves in order to increase the wealth of slaveholders. Slave breeding included coerced sexual relations between male and female slaves, promoting pregnancies of slaves, and favoring female slaves who could produce a relatively large number of children. The purpose of slave breeding was to acquire new slaves without incurring the cost of purchase, and to fill labor shortages caused by the termination of the Atlantic slave trade.Selective breeding between slaves with the aim of developing particular physical traits was uncommon however, as most slaves were unrestricted in their choice of sexual partners.
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