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This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm
The American south before the Civil War.
Slave owners.
Slaves.
Children of slaves.
- - - Slave owners molesting those children - - -
Like, it's a certainty isn't it? Men in power, children with no possible recourse or protection, it had to happen. And happen frequently.
I don't recall ever hearing about it though . . .
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 10:46 pm
Of course it happened, but it is not something one is going to learn in a high school history class.
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 10:49 pm
Or absolutely anywhere?
Wouldn't pregnant 11 year old female children of slaves have garnered mention? If nothing else, in a Sale Bill ??
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 10:51 pm
I think they might have been slightly older than that, but even so times were different back then. It was common for girls to marry young, basically as soon as their bodies showed that they could reproduce.
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 10:52 pm
Well of course, how do you think the term "Light, bright, damn near white!" happened?
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 11:01 pm
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(September 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: The American south before the Civil War.
Slave owners.
Slaves.
Children of slaves.
- - - Slave owners molesting those children - - -
Like, it's a certainty isn't it? Men in power, children with no possible recourse or protection, it had to happen. And happen frequently.
I don't recall ever hearing about it though . . .
IDK, ostensibly there was at least one child molesting slave owner......but then again slave owners weren't a very large group, so the pool my not be deep enough to present a statistical likelihood.
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 11:12 pm
People did whatever they wanted to do with their slaves. Anything you could imagine.
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 11:20 pm
(September 23, 2015 at 10:45 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: The American south before the Civil War.
Slave owners.
Slaves.
Children of slaves.
- - - Slave owners molesting those children - - -
Like, it's a certainty isn't it? Men in power, children with no possible recourse or protection, it had to happen. And happen frequently.
I don't recall ever hearing about it though . . .
You don't hear about it just like you don't hear about gay people from that era. You know, because neither were possible then.
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 11:23 pm
(September 23, 2015 at 10:49 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Or absolutely anywhere?
Wouldn't pregnant 11 year old female children of slaves have garnered mention? If nothing else, in a Sale Bill ??
Do you seriously believe that people were honest back then, to tell people the truth in a Sale Bill? Do you imagine that people back then, WHO OWNED SLAVES, were more moral than people are today, so that they told the truth when they were selling something?
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RE: This had to occur, but is there proof ??
September 23, 2015 at 11:44 pm
There would be diaries preserved from wives of slave owners. Might there be admissions of disgust (or relief) that a husband has found an outlet with . . . ?
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