I would like for us to start referring to my ancestors as people who were enslaved, not just calling them slaves. It's putting human beings beneath the level of a dog even in today's "progressive" educated mindset. When you refer to them as just slaves, your taking away their humanity.
Biracial children ended slavery. Not morality. Justification of owning "slaves" who were light skinned (looking more and more like their masters versus their ancestors) likely was more emotionally challenging and intellectually indigestible.
Emotionally challenging for whom? The experience of being enslaved alone is a traumatic event in itself. Lets not undermine the fact that slave masters relentlessly raped their property that they considered as ‘animals’. The acceptance of The Slave Codes clearly depicts just how far the suppose sympathetic slave owners felt about even their own slave children. If anything, the rise in biracial children during slavery contributed to more harm of the African American community e.i. Colorism, self-esteem,and further break down of physiological manipulation. Hence, today’s society, no one wants to be black but have features of both black and white a.k.a biracial or racially ambiguous. Only in rare cases did slave owners feel remorse for their own children they bore with slaves which is an exception to the facts. Moreover, these biracial children were seen as collateral to the capitalist benefits of their ever so honorable slave owning fathers. Ask yourself this, if biracial children changed the trajectory of slavery thus ending it, why don’t we see more plantations passed down to the biracial children than white children of slave owners. Wouldn’t they have just as much rights to inherit and profit from the revenue produced from owning plantations?
