List of white American slave traders who had mixed-race children with enslaved black women

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Census record of 1880, Louisville, Kentucky: Tarlton Arterburn, occupation "retired negro trader" shares a household with Mary E. Arterburn; Tarlton is classified as white, Mary is classified as black
Arterburn left Mary everything in his will, directing that "the net income arising from my estate my executors are directed to pay to Mary Eliza Shipp alias Arterburn (of color) for and during the term of her natural life"[1]

This is a list of white American slave traders who had mixed-raced children by black women they had at one time legally enslaved.

Historian Alexander J. Finley asserts that sex trafficking inherent in American slavery sometimes resulted in long-term relationships, "Enslaved women sold for sex were not purchased to labor toward a tangible end product, such as cotton bolls, but they labored nonetheless, producing emotion, pleasure, and a sense of mastery in the person who enslaved them...In many cases, slave traders...sold the women they raped. In other cases the traders kept certain enslaved women with them for a number of years, or even for a lifetime, relying on these women for domestic, sexual, and socially reproductive labor."[2]: 10–11 

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  1. ^ a b "Arterburn in Jefferson County", Kentucky, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, pp. 53–54, Images 32–33 of 670 – via Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Finley, Alexandra J. (2020-08-31). An Intimate Economy. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-6135-3. - Chapter 1: Omohundro & Hinton, Chapter 4: Hagan & Cheatham
  3. ^ "Matthew Garrison's Two African-American Families". The Courier-Journal. 2018-02-24. pp. A10. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  4. ^ Green, Kristen; Herron, Carolivia (2022-04-13). "How Mary Lumpkin Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail". Lilith Magazine. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  5. ^ Rothman, Joshua D. (May 2022). "The American Life of Jourdan Saunders, Slave Trader". Journal of Southern History. 88 (2): 227–256. doi:10.1353/soh.2022.0054. ISSN 2325-6893.
  6. ^ "Entry for John A Cammach and C W Cammach, 09 Mar 1873". Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957 – via FamilySearch.
  7. ^ "Entry for Chas B Wilson and Jonathan Wilson, 19 Feb 1878". Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957 – via FamilySearch.
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