While calling for the demise of gays is unacceptable, it helps to understand the source of the vehemence with which the Jamaica society opposes gay unions. Their protests have been so successful that some of the artistes have been banned from Britain by the Home Office.Īrtistes such as Shaba Ranks, Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer and Sizzla Kalonjis have all been accused of rendering anti-gay lyrics and expressed public anti-gay comments in interviews. Those who have stated strong opposition to gay relations have been dancehall artistes, but the gay rights groups have pushed back even having scheduled concerts involving these artistes to be cancelled.
Sadly, the practice continued on the plantations too, with those who landed in Jamaica bearing the most brunt. In Tariq Nasheed’s Hidden Colors documentary, the case is made that right from the ships which spent some three months on the high seas, the enslaved African males were easy target for the captain and his unruly crew, who had their way with the hapless men. Children who were too young to work in the field but could help care for the smaller children, did so.Voyages in transatlantic slave trade Pic Credit: .uk For the most part, older slave women who were no longer useful in the fields cared for the young infants. If a mother was given time to spend with a child, the father was required to pick up the mothers slack. After a long day of work, most mothers only saw their children for a few minutes at night and on weekends. I heard some rustling from his office, and I. I couldn't see back there, but I could hear him go into the bathroom, heard the toilet flush, heard water run for a few moments. He went past the living room to his office area. Some slave owners would allow their slave mothers to leave the fields three times a day to attend to their babies. Smashwords Forced Breeding of the Virgin Babysitter - A book by Cassandra Zara - page 4. Slave owners would not have to worry about purchasing any more slaves because the ones born on his property were his legally.īabies did not spend a lot of time with their natural mothers if any at all. Slave women had children a lot earlier than white women because each came with a price tag and highly valuable to the slave owners. Slave women who thought they would be granted their freedom after ten or fifteen children would continue having babies until their bodies no longer allowed it. Young slave girls who had children early on were viewed as being worthy property, and most masters would not sell them off the plantation. It was the norm for young slave girls to have their first child out of wedlock. Young breeding aged girls who gave their white master as many as ten or fifteen children were promised with freedom papers. But in a study done by Carnegie Mellon University, a common practice found among slave owners was to make young slaves between the ages of 13 and 14 sleep naked together in a room to encourage more breeding. Many young girls were r*ped during this time.
By the time they were twenty, most already had given birth to as many as five children. Most young girls by the age of thirteen and fourteen were already mothers. Historian Herbert Gutman conducted research on the women of the Good Hope Plantation of Orangeburg, South Carolina and what he found was heart wrenching but nonetheless expected.
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