This is a list of white American slave traders who had mixed-raced children by black women they had at one time legally enslaved.
Historian Alexander J. Finley asserts that
sex trafficking inherent in
American slavery sometimes resulted in long-term relationships, "Enslaved women sold for sex were not purchased to labor toward a tangible end product, such as cotton bolls, but they labored nonetheless, producing emotion, pleasure, and a sense of mastery in the person who enslaved them...In many cases, slave traders...sold the women they raped. In other cases the traders kept certain enslaved women with them for a number of years, or even for a lifetime, relying on these women for domestic, sexual, and socially reproductive labor."[2] Slave traders who fathered biracial children were part of a widespread "racial and sexual double standard...in the
slaveholding states [that] gave elite white men a free pass for their sexual relationships with black women, as long as the men neither flaunted nor legitimated such unions."[3]
^Colby, Robert (September 2022). "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America". Book Reviews. Journal of American History. 109 (2): 419–420.
doi:
10.1093/jahist/jaac256.
Finley, Alexandra J. (2020).
An Intimate Economy. University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN978-1-4696-6135-3. - Chapter 1: Omohundro & Hinton, Chapter 4: Hagan & Cheatham