The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
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The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light.
Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as "breeding women" essential to the young country's expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave nation were not only laborers, but merchandise and collateral all at once. In a land without silver, gold, or trustworthy paper money, their children and their children's children into perpetuity were used as human savings accounts that functioned as the basis of money and credit in a market premised on the continual expansion of slavery. Slaveowners collected interest in the form of newborns, who had a cash value at birth and whose mothers had no legal right to say no to forced mating.
This gripping narrative is driven by the power struggle between the elites of Virginia, the slave-raising "mother of slavery," and South Carolina, the massive importer of Africans—a conflict that was central to American politics from the making of the Constitution through the debacle of the Confederacy.
Virginia slaveowners won a major victory when Thomas Jefferson's 1808 prohibition of the African slave trade protected the domestic slave markets for slave-breeding. The interstate slave trade exploded in Mississippi during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, drove the US expansion into Texas, and powered attempts to take over Cuba and other parts of Latin America, until a disaffected South Carolina spearheaded the drive to secession and war, forcing the Virginians to secede or lose their slave-breeding industry.
Filled with surprising facts, fascinating incidents, and startling portraits of the people who made, endured, and resisted the slave-breeding industry, The American Slave Coast culminates in the revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation, which at last decommissioned the capitalized womb and armed the African Americans to fight for their freedom.
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Ned Sublette. (2015). The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago Review Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ned Sublette. 2015. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago Review Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ned Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago Review Press, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ned Sublette. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. Chicago Review Press, 2015.
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Ned Sublette is the author of Cuba and Its Music, The World that Made New Orleans, and The Year Before the Flood. Constance Sublette has published, as Constance Ash, the novels The Horsegirl, The Stalking Horse, and The Stallion Queen, and has edited an anthology of science fiction. They live in New York City.
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The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light.
Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as "breeding women" essential to the young country's expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave nation were not only laborers, but merchandise and collateral all at once. In a land without silver, gold, or trustworthy paper money, their children and their children's children into perpetuity were used as human savings accounts that functioned as the basis of money and credit in a market premised on the continual expansion of slavery. Slaveowners collected interest in the form of newborns, who had a cash value at birth and whose mothers had no legal right to say no to forced mating.
This gripping narrative is driven by the power struggle between the elites of Virginia, the slave-raising "mother of slavery," and South Carolina, the massive importer of Africans—a conflict that was central to American politics from the making of the Constitution through the debacle of the Confederacy.
Virginia slaveowners won a major victory when Thomas Jefferson's 1808 prohibition of the African slave trade protected the domestic slave markets for slave-breeding. The interstate slave trade exploded in Mississippi during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, drove the US expansion into Texas, and powered attempts to take over Cuba and other parts of Latin America, until a disaffected South Carolina spearheaded the drive to secession and war, forcing the Virginians to secede or lose their slave-breeding industry.
Filled with surprising facts, fascinating incidents, and startling portraits of the people who made, endured, and resisted the slave-breeding industry, The American Slave Coast culminates in the revolutionary Emancipation Proclamation, which at last decommissioned the capitalized womb and armed the African Americans to fight for their freedom. - reviews
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- content: "Planters said that slavery was a peculiar domestic institution, a way of life. Abolitionists answered that it was the ugliest of businesses. For too long historians tried to split the difference but really took a side by calling it 'the South,' a society or a culture. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, Ned and Constance Sublette get it right: it was an industry, a particular market-tested brand with varieties adapted to its changing times and places. And like all industries it had a politics, too, that affected producers, consumers, and the workers who, in this peculiar case, were not only labor but also capital and, in the bodies of their children, product. The three-hundred-year story has rarely, if ever, been told so fully or so well."
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A sprawling study of the lucrative slave economy of the South, from importation to breeding. In 1808, the importation of slaves was banned in the United States for protectionist rather than humanitarian measures, signaling a changeover to a domestic slave trade. This husband-and-wife team of accomplished authors and researchers-Ned (The World that Made New Orleans, 2008), and Constance, aka novelist Constance Ash-see that year as key in the transformation of African-American culture. The authors exhaustively delineate the many layers of this horrific story, and they focus on what the numbers reveal: while about 389,000 kidnapped Africans reached the ports of the United States, mostly before independence, by 1860, the number of enslaved persons had grown to 4 million African-Americans. The scramble for labor spurred a slave-breeding economy-epitomized by the fictionalized "stud-farm plantation" in the wildly popular work Mandingo-in which women were breeders ("each prime field wench produced five to ten marketable children during her lifetime") and men, the "stock Negro," where children and parents were separated and frequently resold, and many were trafficked into new territories southward and westward. "Increase" was the message on the plantations, in all senses of the word. In a work of ambitious breadth, the authors first look at the realities of this breeding economy, in which people were money and children were interest. Then they delve into the early evolution of slavery into the Chesapeake and the Lowcountry and study how all the necessary accouterments allowed slavery to prevail, including the running of newspaper ads for sales and runaways, the rise of the Jacksonian "democracy" promising poor whites the possibility of becoming slave owners one day, and specific companies and businesses that profited mightily. This well-documented, occasionally choppy book will be valuable to historians and scholars but may prove daunting for general readers. A massive story of impressive research presented in sometimes-erratic fashion.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Despite their book's sensational title, historians and coauthors Ned (The World That Made New Orleans) and Constance Sublette offer a serious, if also sprawling and passionate, history on the ways slavery made men rich and drove the United States toward civil war. Spanning the colonial period through the collapse of the Confederacy, the authors recount the uses and abuses of slavery as a form of labor but also as a type of exchange, credit, and collateral. The ultimate wealth of slavery, they argue, was in enslaved women's bodies, for slaveholders calculated the buying and selling of people on their capacity to reproduce. The domestic slave trade provided a large and expanding market, and slaveholders capitalized on the demands for labor in the cotton-growing Gulf South by exporting slaves southward and westward in what became a second Middle Passage. VERDICT Scholars will not find much new in this book and will be troubled by a number of errors in fact and emphasis as well as the authors' gratuitous and distracting asides. Still, readers will profit from the extensive survey of "slave breeding" that should remind them that, at its core, American slavery prospered as a violent business with little conscience and brought riches to planters and misery to the enslaved.--Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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