- Source: List of white American slave traders who had mixed-race children with enslaved black women
- List of white American slave traders who had mixed-race children with enslaved black women
- White slavery
- Female slavery in the United States
- List of slave owners
- Slave breeding in the United States
- Black Indians in the United States
- List of slaves
- Passing (racial identity)
- Slave trade in the United States
- Interracial marriage
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." 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."
Tarleton Arterburn
Rice C. Ballard: 1816
Edward Bush
Hector Davis
R. H. Dickinson
Isaac Franklin: 419
Matthew Garrison
William Goodwin
John Hagan
Robert Lumpkin
Silas Omohundro
Jourdan Saunders
Jonathan M. Wilson
See also
Mary Lumpkin – American former slave and property owner
Catharine (Tennessee) – Enslaved mother, b. c. 1835
Murder of Nancy Dickins during the Bolton–Dickens feud
List of American slave traders
Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States
Samuel S. Boyd § Letters