Enslaved women's resistance in the United States and Caribbean facts for kids

Enslaved women were expected to maintain the enslaved populations, which led women to rebel against this expectation via ... and ...s. ... was also committed as a means to protect children from either becoming enslaved or from returning to enslavement.

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..... Due to partus sequitur ventrum, the principle that a child inherits the status of its mother, any child born to an enslaved women would be born enslaved, part of the enslaver's property. Because of this notion, some enslaved women were caught between wanting their children both alive and dead. ..... While fleeing north with her husband and their four children, the Garners were caught at one of the homes they were hiding in. Although Garner planned to kill her children and then herself, she managed to kill one of her daughters and injured the others when marshals stormed the house searching for the Garner family. Garner was put on trial and indicted for property damage. Her remaining children, husband, and herself were returned to her enslaver's brother in Louisiana.

Harriet Jacobs, a former enslaved woman who wrote about her experience, also had a traumatic motherhood experience. ..... In the late Toni Morrison's book Beloved, she mentions that one of the enslaved women viewed her child as the only untouched aspect of herself. .....

See also

• History
  • Slavery in the colonial history of the United States
  • Colonial American bastardy laws
  • Female slavery in the United States
• Marriage and procreation
  • Marriage of enslaved people (United States)
  • Plaçage, interracial common law marriages in French and Spanish America, including New Orleans
  • Slave breeding in the United States
  • Partus sequitur ventrem
  • Legitimacy (family law)
• Heritage
  • Issue (genealogy)
  • African American genealogy
  • Atlantic Creole