Breeding Slaves and Hidden Secret of Reproducing Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Is True !

Breeding Slaves at the time of slavery in Brazil, there are many reports and stories, documentation that were never much publicized, and today we will reveal some of the things that happened at that time here in Brazil! Slavery was the greatest chapter in the history of Brazil. Slaves chained, whipped, maimed and starved by their masters, millions of slaves lived and died to work in coffee fields. Despite slavery being abolished over 150 years ago, most Brazilians still prefer to hide this reality from the world.

The slavery era in the Americas has had and continues to have an incalculable influence on the descendants of enslaved Africans living in this region of the world. One facet of slave life that comes up from time to time is the existence of the “stud”, or “slave breeder”, the black man who was made to mate with female slaves with the objective of creating more slaves for his slave master. Perhaps by analyzing the outcome of this practice, we can continue to get a clearer picture of how the past laid the groundwork for the splintering and devastation of the black family’s history and current status. For a quick background on the “slave breeder” in Brazil, the Kilombagem website tells us that:

“Brazil was the country that received the most Africans in the world. For centuries, every African who came here was a slave, so every African who came here was black. After the Euzébio de Queiroz Law prohibited the importation of Africans, procreation in the senzalas (slave quarters) was one of the ways out of trying to supply the demand for obra negra (black labor). It is in this historical context that the figure of the escravo reprodutor (stud/slave producer) emerges forcefully. It was a series production system. Within this scheme every child of Africans was born a slave, thus all were black. To speed up the process to better and faster supply the market, the masters themselves helped in the production. There were situations in which the white man, not only master of the slave but also of his wife, forced her to have sex with her black breeder so that she could also generate in her womb another slave who, regardless of his/her color, was already born an escravo (slave), was already born black…This logic, which in Brazil for centuries has associated Africans and their descendants with slavery, was responsible for transforming the word negro – which means escravo – into a synonym for Africans and afrodescendentes (African descendants). That is why many of us (an increasing number of) descendants of slaves and enslaved in Brazil have been refusing the term negro in favor of preto (also meaning black).”