The function of such breeding farms was to produce as many slaves as possible for the sale and distribution throughout the South, in order to meet its needs. Slave owners often bred their slaves to produce more workers. During this time period, the terms "breeders", "breeding slaves", "child bearing women", "breeding period", and "too old to breed" became familiar. To add to the supply of slaves, slaveholders looked at the fertility of slave women as part of their productivity, and intermittently forced the women to have large numbers of children.
At the same time, the Upper South had an excess number of slaves because of a shift to mixed-crops agriculture, which was less labor-intensive than tobacco. The demand for labor in the area increased sharply and led to an expansion of the internal slave market. This came at a time when the invention of the cotton gin enabled the expansion of cultivation in the uplands of short-staple cotton, leading to clearing lands cultivating cotton through large areas of the Deep South, especially the Black Belt. The prohibition on the importation of slaves into the United States after 1808 limited the supply of slaves in the United States. Breeding in response to end of slave imports Workers were assigned to the task for which they were best physically suited, in the judgment of the overseer. Men tended to be assigned to large field gangs. On large plantations, enslaved families were separated for different types of labor. Sandford, "they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect". Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. The enslaved workers had no more rights than a cow or a horse, or as famously put by the U.S. Slave owners passed laws regulating slavery and the slave trade, designed to protect their financial investment. The slaves were managed as chattel assets, similar to farm animals. Slaves were treated as a commodity by owners and traders alike, and were regarded as the crucial labor for the production of lucrative cash crops that fed the triangular trade. The invention of the cotton gin enabled the profitable cultivation of short-staple cotton, which could be produced more widely than other types this led to the economic preeminence of cotton throughout the Deep South. Īt the same time that the importation of slaves from Africa was being restricted or eliminated, the United States was undergoing a rapid expansion of cotton, sugarcane, and rice production in the Deep South and the West. Congress from both the North and the South, as well as President Thomas Jefferson. This led to increased calls for abolition in America, supported by members of the U.S. The laws that ultimately abolished the Atlantic slave trade came about as a result of the efforts of British abolitionist Christian groups such as the Society of Friends, known as Quakers, and Evangelicals led by William Wilberforce, whose efforts through the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade led to the passage of the 1807 Slave Trade Act by the British parliament in 1807. Slaves dancing on a South Carolina plantation.
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