Her contention was probably very inaccurate. According to most of what I have read, in 1860, things were pretty punitive to slaves.
Women were specifically bred with specific "studs" depending on what traits the children were wanted to have. Women were often and continually raped by the owners, not just the patriarch, but also any male children who wanted to. Families were purposefully split apart, to keep families from forming. Not 100% true, but systemic and brutal. Unless you count that the slave children were living on the same place as their mother (slave) and father (owner). in 1840, 1820, even 1780 there were more likely to be "enlightened" owners, who realized that "happy" slaves produced the best, and who allowed families to stay together where possible. by 1860, those "enlightened" owners had for the most part gotten out of the slavery business. Those that left were the worst of the worst. My take. Jerry On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:58 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.baratunde.com/blog/2011/7/8/michelle-bachmann-is-running-for-president-on-a-pro-slavery.html >> >> "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet >> sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised >> by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an >> African-American baby born after the election of the USAs first >> African-American President." >> >> WTF?? really >> > > Her contention is probably accurate, yes. > > the number of minority children growing up in 2011 America without both a > mother and a father is STAGGERING. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340092 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
