What was the sex life like for slaves during American slavery? To what extent could slaves choose their own lovers/mates? How prevalent was organized breeding programs among …

The French plantation sequence, amongst other scenes, suggests that Martin Sheen’s character never left his hotel room. Rather on an LSD trip The whole time.

A more common term is “fancy girls,” or “yellow girls,” referring to enslaved women of mixed race. Black women, especially light-skinned Black women, were definitely fetishized and …

ELI5:What would happen if a Slave owner had sex with one of his slaves and the slave had a baby from her master? Would the son or daughter conceived be considered a slave as well?

Extramarital sex has always been considered a sin. However, rates of people having sex before marriage have stayed relatively constant throughout history, particularly among the lower …

Male slave owners had sex with their female slaves often (Thomas Jefferson famously fathered several children with a slave woman, Sally Hemings, who was herself also a child of a slave …

We do know that many slave owners would make an example of a particular individual in full view of the other people living on the plantation, including his or her family; such violent degradation …

Company throws a corporate retreat at a plantation in southern Alabama with a period-appropriate costume ball, only black guy that works for the company shows up dressed as a slave.

Nevertheless though, they most certainly did happen, both in a plantation context, as well as more broadly. The key thing to understand is that a white woman having sex with a black man was …

The other thread about non-black slaves details one case of a white woman marrying a black slave and becoming a legal slave herself, in colonial Maryland. link Are there more examples? …