During slavery, the most powerful tool for control was hoarding information or misinforming. Slavery wasn’t like anything you have experienced. It didn’t even look like the discrimination and segregation you might see today. It was a blurry ideology. A slave would not know why they are in their situation or whether they were slaves at all. It was lies over other lies over lies over misinformation. Layers and layers of it.
For example, white slave owners and their male family members would have sex routinely with slaves. Children would be born and these children would be privileged and would often be taken from their mothers by the fathers. Of course, twisted tales would be the explanation to both the mother and the kid.
Slaves were bred like cattle so that only the best and the strongest would be preserved. Whites would turn to sleeping with them and sometimes finding reasons to use them in awkward ways.
Below is a common practice of having a slave with a good lactating profile breastfeed masters’ children. The black and the white child had their own breasts and you weren’t supposed to interchange them.
A mother breastfeeding a master’s child:
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A master’s child and a slave’s child sharing:
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Breastfeeding? The same reason they would have sex with the women. Like you are inferior but your milk is good. But the word inferior would not be used often. It was just, “its supposed to be like this”. period.
I once had to take American History 1 but utovu ilikua mob, I cut classes & I would have failed so the understanding prof had us watch the movie, write a 2 page review & get 20 credit points added for the ones you lost when you skived.
i would want to look at it in a way that the white women believed that breastfeeding would teremsha their nyonyo. so delegated the job to the black woman.
It was probably out of fear that the black child might get the same as the white child. You had to weaken the black one while making the white one stronger.
Sometimes some women do not produce enough milk to feed their infants so they seek out the help of wet nurses. It could have been the case in some of these occurrences, lakini I think it was mainly about dominance… if you already have a lactating slave it not much of a stretch to have them breast feeding your babies.