S05 E14: Researching The Children Of Breeders

12/27/21 • 60 min

When Congress ended the United States’ participation in the international slave trade in 1808, enslavers and would-be-enslavers could no longer import additional slaves from Africa or the West Indies. There was only one practical way of increasing the number of enslaved laborers: through "natural increase".By the 1820s, established enslavers and prospective enslavers relocated to places previously unavailable for settlement in large numbers. Places like lands cleared of Native Americans in Georgia. The nascent European and New England textile industries were starting to thrive: an expanding Cotton Kingdom required new laborers. So too did Louisiana's Sugar Empire. These economic developments needed an increased enslaved labor force. Human beings known as breeders, enslaved men and women, were the answer to forestall any potential shortfall in the labor required to feed these burgeoning industries.We are taught almost nothing about the breeding farms whose function was to produce as many slaves as possible for the sale and distribution throughout the South.In this episode, we talk about how to recognize a breeding farm when reviewing Slave Schedules and other slavery-related business records – and how to formulate a research strategy to research the children of breeders.Resources referenced in this episode:"American slavery as it is; testimony of a thousand witnesses": https://archive.org/details/americanslaverya00weld/page/182/mode/2up?q=breeding"A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States":https://kottke.org/16/02/a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states?fbclid=IwAR3WsQ0xuuKyKlBGdKUQjJhw0si1V2QJknsAKKXV2YA8mPXrch9P9k7GBcESlave Valuations: https://www.sciway.net/afam/slavery/flesh.html?fbclid=IwAR3U9i4zti2Apfn56XulItcQpVQaA5RnNJbcxYvGhOTyur4rBKy-bA0W80I

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S05 E13: Sold Downriver - Using U.S. Slave Ship Manifests & Records In Your Research

This is a rare episode that mostly used visuals on-air. You may prefer to view the tv episode to see the maps and records that were discussed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vZPu0_KMceQThe global demand for cotton set off a forced migration of enslaved people with close to one million being transported to the Deep South between 1790 and 1860. The importation of captured Africans ended by 1808, which meant that much of the demand for labor within the United States was met by selling slaves who were born in one of the slave states. The colonial period saw enslaved people from the upper colonies shipped to the lower colonies.Each voyage required documentation like a ship manifest. Thousands of these manifests have survived to the present day.In this episode, we talk about:- How important these records are;- How to use ship manifests in your research; and- Where to find them in physical and digital formats

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S05 E15: Creating The Memorial For The USCT Of Natchez, MS W Deborah Fountain

Deborah Fountain is the Lead Genealogist and the History and Research Subcommittee Chairperson on the Natchez USCT Monument Committee. We talked about the steps taken to get these USCT Army and Navy troops honored with a memorial, her family's connection to this history, and ways you can research whether your ancestors fought with the USCT in Natchez. Deborah also discussed the steps that were taken to be a part of something as simple as the Wreaths Across America ceremony. This is a ceremony that happens every Christmas where wreaths are placed on the graves of soldiers throughout the United States.

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