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Brought to you by: Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History https://amzn.to/3rU2K4E ------------------- In this episode of the Philippe Matthews Show LIVE, we are going to uncover yet another dark secret of slavery in African American and Anglo Saxon histrory as it relates to women being able to heal the epigenetic, systemic injury of Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence and Memory in African American History (http://amzn.to/1LPTtRA) with Professor Gregory Smithers. For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit.  In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color. Awards Honorable mention, Deep South Book Prize, 2014, Summersell Center for the  Study of the South                                 Praise for Slave Breeding: “As engaging as it is compelling, bold, and captivating, Smithers’s Slave Breeding pulls the reader through its pages with heart-wrenching exposition of the dark and ugly chapter of what could rightly be characterized as the sexual zeitgeist of American national history.”--TUNDE ADELEKE