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In this passage i found it hard not to wonder about cases of incest.... I know it's taboo, but it seems to me that many of these slaves who where not allowed to marry others, especially on much smaller plantations, would resort to a romance within the family to satisfy sexual needs. Do we know anything about this? --Jessica Lawrie | In this passage i found it hard not to wonder about cases of incest.... I know it's taboo, but it seems to me that many of these slaves who where not allowed to marry others, especially on much smaller plantations, would resort to a romance within the family to satisfy sexual needs. Do we know anything about this? --Jessica Lawrie | ||
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| + | In the Plantation Rules document, one rule is that slaves couldn't marry outside the plantation. Wouldn't enouraging marriage within the plantation result in higher pregnancy rates? I know that slaves children, also become slaves and belong to the master; but what about maternity leave and nursing the infant? Wouldn't females slaves have to take a leave of absense? If so, was this a common way to get out of doing work?--Megan Malecha | ||
== Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | == Nat Turner – from ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', 1831 == | ||
