the great increase of the slave population on the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due toa-the reopening of the African slave trade in 1808b-larger imports of slaves from the West Indiesc-natural reproductiond-reenslavement of free blackse-the deliberate breeding of slaves by plantation owners
During the nineteenth century slavery expanded.The centrality of enslaved women’s reproduction to the perpetuation of slavery was also evident in slave owners’.
