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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [b]Monogamy quite common in Africa, and among arriving black slaves in the United States[/b] DATA: QUOTE: "For slaves however, monogamous marriages represented something more than succumbing to the demands of demography, plantation discipline and the values of masters. To understand this requires a closer look at African marriage patterns. Once again, the testimony of the Amistad slaves in valuable. . Sixteen or the thirty-six interviewed Amistad mutineers were married, and of these only one, Fabanna, a middle-aged Mende slave, was polygamous... Testimony concerning martial practices in eighteenth-century Sierra Leone corroborates the Amistad evidence. An English trader in 1788 reported that "tho polygamy is allowed in ye Country it is practiced only by the rich." Such data stress a point long obvious to anthropologists; wherever polygamy has been or is the "preferred" marital form, monogamy is acceptable and probably common because of limits imposed by demographic and economic factors. Slaves coming from Africa, then, had experiences encompassing both polygamy and monogamy and thus need not have relied on their master' example to institute monogamy, Indeed, most male slave imports, normally young adults who had not had time to accumulate much wealth, had practiced only monogamy in Africa prior to capture. When confronted by the severely limiting demographic and social conditions in America, they tended to replicate their monogamous but not their polygamous tribal experiences. Owners in the southern mainland simply reinforced this tendency. Albermarle Sound slaveowners, Brickell observed, became involved in the martial arrangements of their slaves only to give permission for such unions or when no children had been born within a year. In the latter case planters might "oblige" slave women "to take a second, third, fourth, fifth, or more Husbands or Bed Fellows; a fruitful Woman amongst them being very much valued by the Planters, and a numerous Issue esteemed the greatest Riches in this Country." {{ENDQUOTE}} --Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary. (1999) Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775. 160-161 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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